Tech mogul and billionaire Elon Musk added fuel to the fire on Wednesday amid violent anti-immigration protests in Northern Ireland, sparked by a stabbing incident

Images show three masked protesters trying to launch petrol bombs and then running away after one set himself alight in Portadown

A government minister denounced “racist thuggery” after a second night of unrest on the streets of the Northern Ireland capital saw masked men torch houses and vehicles. The violence erupted after a brutal stabbing that was caught on video.

The Bishop said the riots and continued attacks against migrants "will not resolve any underlying issues, and violence will have to give way to dialogue and engagement."

Anti-immigrant protests erupted across Northern Ireland after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged over a brutal Belfast stabbing. Homes were torched, vehicles burned, and immigrant communities target

The violence is concentrated on the Protestant side of Belfast’s divide in working-class communities where the outlawed UDA and UVF hold sway.

A 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court Wednesday charged with attempted murder over a stabbing attack that left a victim seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland.

The victim, Stephen Ogilvie, is in hospital and has lost his left eye, Belfast Magistrates' Court heard on Wednesday. In a statement issued earlier today, his family have urged that the "overnight unrest is not welcome,