Riot police in Belfast were attacked for a second night running on Saturday after Protestant riots over a blocked march left 32 officers, an MP and at least eight rioters wounded the night before.
Stones and bottles were thrown at riot police on rubble strewn streets in the north of Belfast on Saturday and hundreds of police reinforcements from Britain were deployed in the area.
Water cannon was also being used in an attempt to disperse the crowds gathered on Woodvale Road.
This year British authorities ordered Orangemen to avoid the stretch of road nearest Ardoyne, for the anti-Catholic fraternity's annual 12 July marches as they have always raised tensions with the Irish Catholic minority.
Orange leaders insisted the blockade decision was the problem, not the alcohol-fuelled fury of their own members.
But they backed off their original threat to mount indefinite street protests across Northern Ireland and ordered a suspension of protests early on Saturday.
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