Fires rage in continued N Ireland unrest where youths threw gasoline bombs amid post-Brexit tensions

Police and politicians in Northern Ireland appealed for calm on Monday after a third night of violence that saw Protestant youths start fires and pelt officers with bricks and gasoline bombs. The flareups come amid rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and worsening relations between the parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing Belfast government. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said officers were attacked in Londonderry on Sunday night, and there was also unrest in two pro-British unionist areas near Belfast. Police said most of those involved were teenagers. Chief Superintendent Darrin Jones condemned the “senseless and reckless criminal behaviour that (does) nothing but cause damage to the community.” Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs in further disorder in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland over long Easter weekend amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region. Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new