Rioting on Sunday and further violence on Monday has left at least 47 policemen injured in Belfast, as disorder erupted in the city between loyalists and republicans.
Almost 10 hours of rioting on Sunday saw the police fire water cannons as petrol bombs, fireworks, golf balls and bottles were thrown at police lines, with Chief Superintendent George Clark describing the violence as "savage, appalling and reprehensible".
The violence erupted after a loyalist protest against republican bands marching in the area. The previous weekend a loyalist band defied a ban against playing sectarian songs as they marched past a Catholic church.
See the report from the Guardian here.
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