Irish Examiner view: Alarm over youth disorder in North

Children as young as 12 arrested for anti-protocol rioting

Anti Northern Ireland Protocol protesters were warned by police that they face prosecution for staging the protest at Lanark Way in the Shankill area of west Belfast. Picture: Alan Lewis/Photopress

IT is alarming to note that children as young as 12 have been arrested for anti-protocol rioting in Northern Ireland. 

Two boys have been arrested following disorder in Belfast after a rally against the protocol. Up to 100 youths attacked police following a rally. Police were attacked with missiles and fireworks close to a peace line in Belfast on Wednesday evening.