After the Riots, What’s Next for Northern Ireland?
Fireworks explode at police vehicles during clashes with nationalist youths in the Springfield Road area of Belfast on April 8.
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Northern Ireland this month endured some of its worst violence in years, with over 70 police officers injured in rioting in mainly pro-British, loyalist areas. In scenes reminiscent of the so-called Troubles, the decades of strife which killed 3,500 people, gangs torched a hijacked bus, petrol bombs were hurled and police blasted protesters with water cannon.