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Brexit casts its shadow over Northern Ireland – Comments

Day-long riots in Northern Ireland with more than 70 police officers injured and property damage running into millions have been a painful reminder for the British and their conservative head of government: 100 days after the final EU exit, 100 years after the division of Ireland, the northeast of the Emerald Isle remains a scene unresolved conflicts. These have centuries-old causes: a mixture of ethnic and religious resentment between the London-oriented Protestants and Irish Catholic nationalists, from poverty and lack of prospects, from the traumatization after 30 years of civil war with more than 3,500 dead.

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