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Monday, January 14, 2013

Northern Ireland street battles over Union Jack continue

Loyalist demonstrators are angry over new restrictions on flying the Union Jack outside Belfast City Hall.


More than two dozen police officers were hurt in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday in more battles over restrictions on flying the Union flag.
The officers were trying to separate Irish nationalists who fought with British loyalists returning from a demonstration in the city centre to the Protestant east side.
Police separated the two groups and fired several plastic bullets, before loyalists turned on the police and threw stones and bottles at them.
Officers had to intervene in a second round of street fighting after nightfall.
The Protestants have blocked streets daily since Catholics on city council voted on Dec. 3 to limit the flying of the British flag, commonly known as the Union Jack, to 18 designated days above the town hall.
Previously, the flag had been raised every day, year-round.
The violence is reported to have cost Northern Ireland an estimated £25 million ($40 million) in lost trade and tourism and in police overtime bills.
The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party said 10 Short Strand homes were damaged during Saturday's clashes.
Sinn Fein councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile, who represents Short Strand, said it was the 15th illegal Protestant march past the Catholic neighbourhood since last month.

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