2021 Northern Ireland riots

Loyalist frustration with the Irish Sea border and the Bobby Storey funeral ignited ten days of fire across Derry, Belfast and Carrickfergus. Men threw bricks and petrol bombs at police, hijacked cars and built roadblocks while eighty-eight officers absorbed the blows. The riot was not sudden madness but a pressure valve: years of border anxiety, pandemic exhaustion and institutional distrust found a voice in smoke.