{"id":403299,"date":"2021-04-09T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=403299"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:58:36","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-reignites-sectarian-tension-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-lockdown-reignites-sectarian-tension-in-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lockdown reignites sectarian tension in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-19-lockdown-reignites-sectarian-tension-in-northern-ireland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=403299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2395557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2395557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks explode as Nationalist and Loyalist rioters clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The police had to close roads into the near by Protestant area as crowds from each divide attacked each other. (AP Photo\/Peter Morrison)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:49 AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 9, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Tensions broke out again in Northern Ireland over the selective enforcement of coronavirus lockdowns by local authorities. Clashes continued into the fourth night in Belfast with supporters of the union with the U.K. throwing firebombs at nationalists who want to join the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The violence began after authorities refused to punish the Nationalist Party Sinn Fein for breaking COVID-19 rules at last year\u2019s funeral of IRA Intel Chief Bobby Storey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical unionism is feeling that the union is very much under threat, that Northern Ireland\u2019s place is under threat in the union,\u201d stated Katy Hayward of Queen\u2019s University Belfast. \u201cAnd they feel in London, they feel very much that suspicious of the protocol and Brussels, the Irish government\u2019s role in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The photograph on the left shows <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PoliceServiceNI<\/a> enforcing Covid regulations at the Belfast <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMattters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMattters<\/a> protest. <\/p>\n<p>In the photo on the right you have a better chance of finding Waldo than any PSNI Officer enforcing Covid regulations.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2TierPolicing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2TierPolicing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UukXyfaYPm\">pic.twitter.com\/UukXyfaYPm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Northern Ireland Centenary 2021\ud83d\udcaf (@NICentenary2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICentenary2021\/status\/1280188468782645249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>North Irish unionists said the selective enforcement of COVID-19 rules is unfair and local officials, favoring Nationalists, may break the U.K. into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Boris Johnson said he\u2019s investigating the reasons why coronavirus rules weren\u2019t properly enforced.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=0u00gRcm_KA\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=0u00gRcm_KA<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/one-on-one-with-cuomo-accuser-attorney-gloria-allred\/\"> One-on-one with Cuomo accuser attorney Gloria Allred<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fireworks explode as Nationalist and Loyalist rioters clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. 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