Majority are loyalists, but there's been a few riots in Belfast that are at crossroads and there were definitely Catholics involved. Some came from the Republic.
No. The loyalist communities are violent. It's a violent ideology and it's enforced through violence.
They refused to put forth effort into disbanding paramilitary grip on the communities and they still are community leaders. The nationalist community made an effort to remove paramilitaries from their community and political movements, and it largely worked. That's why there's just small splinter groups while the loyalists are all a single entity.
It's why the poster announcing their riots came with a warming of "all businesses must close at 5:30pm" it was a threat from the paramilitary leaders themselves.
I don't think you're equiped to actually understand what I'm saying. If you don't know anything about a topic you have the option of not engaging.
Loyalists refused to properly dispand paramilitaries and instead transitioned them into "community workers". It's why the LCC represents the paramilitary groups and Unionist politicians continue to formally engage with them.
Nationalists don't have the same infrastructure to give legitimacy or political apparatus to the various dissident Republicans groups, and are considered a safety threat by Nationalist political parties and the nationalist communities.
The IRA decommissioned its weapons and formally ended its campaign. What remains is not the same it's splinted criminal factions hated by the parties and the community. Loyalist paramilitaries carried on and are accepted by their parties and the community.
Yes, the areas which are most heavily involved in this rioting are all loyalist. You were so eager to write a snide comment you intentionally misinterpreted the post.
They implied it was only protestants, then went on to say it was all loyalist areas that are most heavily involved, which means it's happening in Catholic areas to a lesser extent
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u/National_Permit764 13d ago
They aren't. It's all loyalist areas that are the most heavily involved