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A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target ...

Anti-migrant acts such as the bonfire with effigies of refugees in a boat were ‘racist and ugly,’ and Northern Ireland says ...

This convergence reflects a broader trend in which traditionally opposed groups coalesce around common narratives', the ISD ...

I believe there was less overt racism during the Celtic Tiger years than today, but it wasn’t non-existent. Racial ...

Ballymena, 45 kilometres (28 miles) from Belfast, is a mainly Protestant working-class town that was once the powerbase of Ian Paisley, the fiercely pro-British preacher-politician who died in 2014.

The violence flared first and was most intense in Ballymena after two 14-year-old boys were arrested and appeared in court, accused of a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in the town.

The eruption of what police described as mob-led "racist thuggery" is particularly dangerous in Northern Ireland due to its legacy of sectarian violence.

As the week unfolded, unrest spilled beyond the streets of Ballymena to other Northern Ireland towns including Lisburn, Portadown, Coleraine, Newtownabbey, Carrickgergus and Belfast, reflecting ...