In Portadown, Northern Ireland, rioters clashed with police amid anti-immigrant violence, prompted by the arrest of two teenagers. The incidents followed a court hearing where the boys denied serious charges via a Romanian interpreter.

Communities in Northern Ireland are experiencing a fourth day of fear and anxiety as masked protesters continue to wreak havoc and commit acts of fiery vandalism on residential neighbourhoods

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The police said that attacks on houses and businesses in the town of Ballymena were being investigated as racially motivated, and that 15 officers had been injured.

Police say 41 officers have been injured and 13 people have been arrested after three nights of rioting across several towns.

Riot police were pelted with petrol bombs, masonry and fireworks and nine officers were wounded in the third night of unrest in Northern Ireland, police said on Thursday amid simmering

A demonstration organised on social media called for a ‘peaceful protest to show our anger at what cannot and will not be tolerated in this town’. But after three nights of violence, terrified familie

Policing is devolved in Northern Ireland, with the PSNI primarily funded by Stormont's Department of Justice (DoJ) to the tune of £800m or more per year. It also receives about £40m annually from the Northern Ireland Office to deal with terrorism and paramilitaries.