Thirteen police injured in Northern Ireland sectarian clashes


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Seven Northern Irish police officers were injured when violence flared during the pro-British parade in central Belfast, police said. (Peter Muhly, AFP/Getty Images)


Reuters

4:55 p.m. CDT, September 2, 2012

BELFAST (Reuters) - At least 13 police were injured in clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland on Sunday in a dispute over the rights of the two communities to hold parades in the area.

Police fired water cannon after protesters from both sides threw bottles and stones at officers trying to separate the rival groups in north Belfast. At least three officers were taken to hospital, a police spokeswoman said.

The disturbances followed a march by a Catholic Irish nationalist band in an area where pro-British Protestant groups were recently barred from marching.

Last weekend seven police officers were hurt in the same area when a Protestant band marched past a Catholic church playing music in defiance of a ban from the parades commission, which regulates marches in the province.

Since a peace agreement was signed in 1998, paramilitary violence between the province's Catholics and Protestants, which had raged on and off for three decades, has largely ended, but much of Belfast remains divided along sectarian lines.

Riots often erupt during the summer months when pro-British Protestant groups hold traditional parades that are seen as provocative by Catholic Irish nationalists, many of whom want to be part of a united Ireland.

(Writing by Conor Humphries; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Copyright © 2012, Reuters

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Not surprising...even on NL we have our own Catholic-Protestant mini wars daily

mkmyers45: Not surprising...even on NL we have our own Catholic-Protestant mini wars daily

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As always ... killing in the name of Sir. ...
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@OP,the b.ullshit started when henry the 8th wanted to f.uck his senior brother's wife but then she couldn't give him a child so he wanted to f.uck someone else,but the pope said 'nobody f.ucks without my permission',so henry forms the church of england and loyalties are divided over whether to support rome or london!!!

mkmyers45: Not surprising...even on NL we have our own Catholic-Protestant mini wars daily

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