Loyalist riots continue in Northern Ireland over banning of Union Jack

Those protesters caught breaking their own laws should be sent to England to live and work for 6 months. They will return home in the knowledge that they are bPADDIES whether they like it or not.

How appropriate that a community of supremacist thugs is the most prominent of what it means to be "british."

Pilib04. Ironic that that those british living in Ireland feel the need to present themselves as more British than the Brits.

Very poor report, The flag was never banned. This is a some thing we would expect from the english tabloids.

The ALLIANCE party is the BEST thing ever to happen to Northern Ireland. They will bring Northern Ireland into the 21st century and DESERVE the support of all law-abiding citizens.

They never have been great on compromise.

The English will be free of Scotland if they go independent & the irish problem will fall to both Ireland & Scotland to fund the Ulster problem themselves, as the level of sectarian imidation is on the increase noth of the border, think of all the Ulster loving prods & any UI will go out of the window, there have only ever been 2 solutions to the Ulster condundrum & that is either the UK & ROI coexist peacefully in a federation of states sharing common socio economic, defence ideals or the ulster scots are repatriated back to scotland & the irish catholics in scotland are repatriated to Ulster. The 1st is a viable idea, the 2nd, well if we are repatriating people who have lived in a country for 400 years, the Australia, NZ, US immigrants would have to leave & return the lands to the indigeousness peoples, somehow, i can't see people agreeing to that

just a minute James O'Shea, the Union FLAG (not'Jack'incidentally)has NOT been 'banned' from Belfast City Hall. It will still fly 17 days a year. And no, I'm not a Loyalist, I am however a fan of accurate reporting!

" I wonder what might happen say if Scotland leaves the Union in 2014" Hopefully it is followed by the seccession of Wales, Cornwall, Devon and ultimately the reunification of Ireland.

4 days in so many police injuries, No arrests?? mmm psni seem no different to the old mob" Yes, een a peaceful indigenous protest on this scale would trigger plastic bullets, beatings, and incarceration with torture/interogation and forced confessions.

I wonder what might happen say if Scotland leaves the Union in 2014. Will the Union Jack no longer be significant. Strategy wise I can see that pulling a stunt like this now rather than waiting for the outcome of that referendum in Scotland is a good one. Nothing like violent resentment of change to bolster your position unless of course its someone else doing that to you.

4 days in so many police injuries, No arrests?? mmm psni seem no different to the old mob!

A democratic vote on a compromise, to put flag usage in line with that of Stormont, England, Wales and Scotland leads to nightly riots among Loyalists and (according to the PSNI) led by paramilitaries.

Mcilroy and his merry band of charlie chaplin planted need to return to their Saxon motheland. full stop.