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11:33 EDT, 10 April 2021 Advertisement Two men charged in connection with riots in Northern Ireland were today denied bail on grounds that they could re-offend - as police were pelted with stones and missiles on an eighth night of violence. Matthew Shaw, 32, and Jonathan Maitland, 25, both from Belfast, appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court, having been arrested following the riots on Thursday night. Shaw was charged with rioting while Maitland was charged with rioting and possessing petrol bombs in suspicious circumstances. It came after another chaotic night on Friday which saw 14 police officers injured, bringing the total number of officers hurt in the recent disorder to 88. ....
Stop before it s too late: Sister of killed Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee pleads with rioters to end violence following seven nights of unrest in Belfast Sister of journalist shot dead by the New IRA at riot appeals for calm amid recent unrest in Northern Ireland 19 police were injured on top of the 55 hurt over previous six nights, while police attacked with petrol bombs Journalist Lyra McKee, 29, was shot dead by the New IRA at a riot in an area of Londonderry in April 2019 Nichola McKee Corner spoke after water cannon were used for the first time in six years during riots in Belfast ....
A common sense solution should be found to Northern Ireland Protocol problems like the supply of soil, a former Irish tanaiste said. The Republic’s ex-attorney general and justice minister Michael McDowell said his jurisdiction faced many of the same challenges which concerned unionists, like obtaining seed potatoes from Scotland. He questioned why the European Commission was pursuing legal action over the UK’s unilateral extension of post-Brexit grace periods and called for better cooperation. “There is a common sense to easing the new arrangements into existence. “The idea that plants cannot be moved from Britain to Northern Ireland in particular without removing the soil from them; these are the kind of issues that common sense would suggest should be addressed in a common sense way. ....