Days of riots in Northern Ireland have left migrants from other countries mulling their future, with some considering fleeing the UK province to protect their families. It was a kind of "protection",

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.

Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday, in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.

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

Violence erupted in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday (Jun 11), with masked youths starting a fire in a leisure centre but unrest in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena was notably smaller in scale.

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.