Marching season sparks Belfast violence

Published on 13 July 2011 at 10:03

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“Flames of hatred,” headlines the Belfast Telegraph. The Northern Irish daily leads with a shock photograph of a riot police officer whose helmet is on fire after a second night of violence in Belfast. As the loyalist marching season reached its climax, with Protestant parades across the province commemorating Prince William of Orange's 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory over Catholic King James II, trouble broke out on Monday and Tuesday night in Belfast as nationalists sought to block parades passing through or near Catholic areas. The traditionally Unionist daily blames dissident nationalist groups, opposed to the Northern Irish peace process, who “send their members to flashpoints where they encourage local youths, who are often involved in petty crime, to take on the police.”

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