Under a gray, overcast sky, more than 1,000 protesters gathered Saturday in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast carrying large Union flags, some wrapped around their shoulders. The silent protest ...

Banners, flags and ‘f**k you’ bonfires - Northern Ireland’s ‘cultural war’ rages ‘It is the first time in a long time that loyalists have won’, says activist Jamie Bryson An 11th ...

On December 3rd Belfast City Council decided, by 29 votes to 21, to reduce the number of days the Union flag was flown above the city hall from 365 to 17 days a year. Within minutes of the vote a ...

Sectarian tensions in and around Belfast are rising ahead of next week's bonfire night and the annual July 12 Orange Men parades. Swastika and Confederate flags have been removed over the last week.

Police have been attacked in Ballymena for the third consecutive night as authorities struggle to clamp down on the violent ...

Flags flown at war memorials in the borough are the Union flag (Larne and Ballymena) and the Union and Northern Ireland flags (Carrickfergus). If a Royal British Legion commemoration is held, for ...

Damage to a war memorial in Co Tyrone is being treated as a sectarian hate crime. Police received a report of criminal damage ...

This is because Northern Ireland has witnessed the end of war but not the beginning of a shared society. Cultural symbols are used to hang onto the past, not create a new future.