Vari oggetti, compresi pezzi di cemento e bottiglie di vetro, sono stati lanciati contro la Hunger Strike Commemoration March quando ha oltrepassato un punto delicato all’incrocio tra Millfield e Castle Street verso le 16.
Centinaia di persone e cinque bande musicali stavano prendendo parte alla parata partita da York Street, percorrendo Donegall Street, Royal Avenue – vicino al punto dove due soldati della UDR furono uccisi da una bomba dell’IRA nel 1988 – prima di passare alla fine di Shankill Road per far rotta verso Divis Street e Falls Road.
Nel frattempo il brigadiere di South Belfast dell’Ulster Defence Association, Jackie McDonald, ha raggiunto schiere di lealisti della Brown Square Residents Association per una contro manifestazione a Peter’s Hill.
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Trouble flares during republican parade
Missiles including a concrete slab and glass bottles were thrown as the Hunger Strike Commemoration March passed a flashpoint at the junction of Millfield and Castle Street at about 4pm.
Hundreds of people and five flute bands took part in the parade which made its way from York Street, along Donegall Street, Royal Avenue — past the point where two UDR soldiers were killed by an IRA bomb in 1988 — before passing the bottom of the Shankill Road on its way to Divis Street and the Falls Road.
Meanwhile, the UDA’s south Belfast leader Jackie McDonald joined scores of loyalists from the Brown Square Residents Association for a counter-demonstration at Peter’s Hill.
There were no reports of any injuries.
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