IEThe Irish Times
A visual timeline of how foreign agitators helped spark racist riots in Belfast
Notable co-ordination via ‘online social media activity’ from within North and ‘outside the island of Ireland’, say police
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- 08 Sept 2026, 14:03 UTC
- Last checked
- 09 Sept 2026, 01:19 UTC
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- 1 version
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Publisher layer
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 13 Jun 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Seanín Graham, Rachel Lavin
- Section
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Notable co-ordination via ‘online social media activity’ from within North and ‘outside the island of Ireland’, say police
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A visual timeline of how foreign agitators helped spark racist riots in Belfast
Notable co-ordination via ‘online social media activity’ from within North and ‘outside the island of Ireland’, say police
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- #7790
- Observed
- 08 Sept 2026, 14:03 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
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- 833,599 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt