BELFAST—Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on April 8 to appeal for calm after more than a week of nightly violence partly fuelled by frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers.
Hundreds of youths in the British province’s capital Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones on April 7 in scenes reviving memories of decades of sectarian strife that claimed some 3,600 lives prior to a 1998 peace deal.
