Loyalist protests against Northern Ireland Protocol to restart Loyalist protest and blocked Lanark Way in west Belfast
An outbreak of violence at Cloughfern in the loyalist Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey
UNANNOUNCED loyalist protests are expected to restart today, following a week-long cessation following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.
A group calling itself the Ards & North Down Loyalist Collective indicated that unnotified band parades will take place in Bangor and Newtownards at 7pm tonight.
The message was carried on various loyalist Facebook sites, including one linked North Down Defenders flute band which has been described by UDA leader Dee Stitt as our homeland security .
SINN Féin has blamed unionist leaders for a wave of violence in loyalist areas across the north over the Easter weekend. Police were attacked and cars hijacked in Newtownabbey on Saturday, 24 hours after violence erupted in parts of Belfast and.
Chris Donnelly: Sinn Féin should make honest, forthright and contrite admission over Bobby Storey funeral Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald, former leader Gerry Adams and Deputy First Minister Michelle O Neill attending the funeral of Bobby Storey in west Belfast last June. Picture by Liam McBurney/PA Wire Chris Donnelly
Chris Donnelly. Picture by Hugh Russell
THERE was a time, amidst the RHI crisis, when Sinn Féin were demanding the removal of Arlene Foster as DUP leader.
That demand was dropped for several reasons, the most important being that strategically republicans realised it was much better for them to keep the toxic figure Foster had become in position for as long as possible.
A SENIOR barrister has been brought in to advise prosecutors considering whether to charge any of the 24 mourners referred by the police for breaching Covid-19 restrictions at Bobby Storey s funeral.