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

Irish anti-immigration groups have been working alongside British nationalists and Northern Irish loyalists, a new report ...

Why have anti-immigration riots broken out in Northern Ireland? Anti-immigrant riots began in Ballymena, but economic grievances may not be enough to explain the phenomenon.

Vasundhara Sirnate, who has lived in NI since 2017, reflects on years of experiencing racism in her adopted community, and explains why recent anti-immigrant violence felt tragically inevitable On ...

Riots broke out in Northern Ireland in mid-June following an alleged sexual assault by two Romanian-speaking youths – ...

Protests in the small Northern Irish town of Ballymena spiralled into acts of anti-immigrant violence this week after two teenagers who spoke Romanian were charged with sexually assaulting a local ...

Anti-migrant far-right figures in the Republic are increasing their co-operation with loyalist groups in Northern Ireland and ...

Authorities in Northern Ireland are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading “stop the boats’’ to determine whether it was a hate incident ...

The placing of an effigy of a migrant boat on a loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone is being investigated as a “hate incident”, the ...

Anti-migrant mobilisation across the island of Ireland has entered a new, more organised phase, according to the organisation ...

Europe Legacy of past hangs over anti-immigrant violence in Northern Ireland July 1, 2025 Bullets and bombs were a part of life in the Belfast that Raied al-Wazzan moved to from Iraq in 1990, but ...

Most of the other areas where anti-immigrant violence spread last week - Larne, Newtownabbey, Portadown and Coleraine - were similar, mostly Protestant towns.