A TEENAGER HAS BEEN arrested in connection with the Ardoyne riots last month. The 16-year-old boy is being questioned in relation to riots which began on 12 July and continued for four days. A 41-year-old man was charged with riotous assembly. Yesterday, a 25-year-old man and a 44-year-old man were charged with riotous assembly for the disturbances.
Ardoyne Riots
# ardoyne-riots - Friday 13 July, 2012
PHOTOS: Nine police officers injured in Belfast riots
Petrol bombs were thrown and shots fired amid disturbances after the Twelfth of July marches.
# ardoyne-riots - Wednesday 25 August, 2010
# ardoyne-riots - Tuesday 24 August, 2010
THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE isn’t happy.
US business news site Business Insider ran an Irish financial news story today alongside a dramatic photograph of the 12 July riots in Ardoyne – indicating a link between the two events.
The website would appear to be following the example of the Drudge Report.
The Department of Finance exclusively told TheJournal that it had contacted the website saying “the photograph accompanying the article is being used out of context” and demanded that it be removed.
The offending article relates to a breaking story regarding Irish businesses in breach of their loan covenants, a story completely unrelated to the emotionally-charged rioting that occurred in Northern Ireland in July over six weeks ago.
The photograph shows a hooded figure running past a car engulfed by flames and smoke.
Considering Northern Ireland’s troubled past, the choice of words for the headline alongside such an image also seems more than a little crass: “Massive Commercial Real Estate Loans Now Blowing Up in Ireland”.
Last month, the Department of Finance was furious when another news website, Drudge Report, ran a Irish financial story featuring a photograph of the Ardoyne riots alongside the text. By connecting the story with the photograph, the site seemed to imply that Ireland was suffering “Greek-style crisis of rioting and demonstrations”, as the Tribune put it.
Remarkably, the photographs used by the two websites are almost identical.
UPDATE: Business Insider have now changed the image.
# ardoyne-riots - Wednesday 28 July, 2010
BELFAST MAGISTRATES COURT has heard that one man travelled more than 30 miles to get to the Ardoyne riots. Paul Donegan, 26, from Dunclug Park, Ballymena, is accused of riotous behaviour on 12 July.
Donegan’s solicitor said he was in the area to collect a childcare item from a relative, but a police officer told the court the accused had travelled specifically to the area to take part in the riot.
Bail was refused and Donegan was remanded in custody. The presiding judge said she was concerned about the possibility of re-offending.
Rioting at Ardoyne began on 12 July and continued for three more days.
Separately, a 16-year-old boy was in court facing charges relating to the same riot. His charges range from riotous assembly, to destroying a Toyota after seizing it by force.
The court was told the youth could not be controlled and had been rolling a cannabis joint when police came to arrest him. Bail was refused for the boy, who cannot be named because of his age.
Both persons will appear before the Belfast court again next month.
# ardoyne-riots - Thursday 22 July, 2010
THE FEMALE PSNI officer who was seriously injured during the Ardoyne riots has been released from hospital. Rioters struck ‘Samantha’ on the head with a concrete block dropped from a shop roof.
The PSNI says it knows the identity of her attacker, but has not arrested him yet.
The riots kicked off in Ardoyne on 12 July as annual Orange Order parades took place around Northern Ireland. Four days of violence and vandalism followed as nationalist and unionist youths clashed in the streets.
The father of the injured woman and local residents were highly critical about how the PSNI dealt with the rioters, and called for more arrests to be made.
The PSNI said that in certain situations it is not practical for officers to make arrests, but they have been studying CCTV footage from the area. Last week, one woman was charged with possession of a loaded firearm near the scene of the riots. Over 80 PSNI officers were injured over the course of the riots.
This footage shows PSNI officers confronting rioters on 14 July:
# ardoyne-riots - Monday 19 July, 2010
A 49-YEAR-OLD WOMAN has appeared in court in Belfast on charges of possessing a loaded gun near last week’s riots in Ardoyne. Norma Elizabeth Crowder from Butler Walk was arrested by PSNI officers on Friday and charged yesterday.
Ms Crowder denied knowledge of the loaded gun and ammunition found under decking in her garden. She was granted bail on condition of being electronically tagged and surrendering her passport. Ms Crowder will appear in court again next month.
Police are continuing their investigations into the riots which injured over 80 of their officers.
The four-day riots kicked off on on the 12 July as annual Orange Order parades took place around the North. Ardoyne residents affected by the violence and vandalism of the riots held a demonstration on Thursday evening to show their disapproval of the rioting. Locals also called for further arrests to be made in connection with the riots.
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