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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 8 Dec 2012

    Police and pro-British (loyalist) demonstrators clash in Belfast following flag protest outside City Hall. Details soonhttp://bbc.in/QPFa3X 

    7:27 AM - 8 Dec 2012
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      2. Pahl RS‏ @pahlrs 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking :PLEASE let them not start the TROUBLES again !

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      3. CheerfulChappy‏ @AppChapp 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @pahlrs

        @pahlrs @BBCBreaking Im afradi i think that is the aim of Belfast City Council, very sad

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      4. Pahl RS‏ @pahlrs 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @AppChapp

        @MarkyMarkSurrey @BBCBreaking :Indeed. Will sending Bill Clinton over again be of any help ?

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      5. CheerfulChappy‏ @AppChapp 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @pahlrs

        @pahlrs @BBCBreaking my thoughts too,why do Americans think their interference will help?They should sort their own house out first.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Pahl RS‏ @pahlrs 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @AppChapp

        @MarkyMarkSurrey @BBCBreaking :Oh you know us. We just want to HELP and it keeps our minds off our OWN problems.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. CheerfulChappy‏ @AppChapp 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @pahlrs

        @pahlrs @BBCBreaking By "Americans" i was referring to the politicans,not the people.

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      1. William Gordon‏ @Roamanus 8 Dec 2012
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCBreaking Religion : claim-to-be Loyalists, ignoring the Constitution of Northern Ireland, maintaining old nine-county Ulster identity.

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      1. donnach o donohoe‏ @donnachodonohoe 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking "Police and pro British" do pro British people put their own police in hospital. Shocking reporting. Sad

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      1. nigel cooper‏ @nigelcooper7 9 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking Just wish these people would move into the 21st century. All this violence for a flag.

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      1. CheerfulChappy‏ @AppChapp 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking again Belfast City council causing trouble, when will they all be up on charges, there is something wrong (corruption) there

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      1. hjarta‏ @hjarta50 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking put the flag back up simples. Give the public what they want not what u councillors think best

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      1. Ben (2E0KSX)  🇪🇺‏ @TheSwiv 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking pro-British? Who says? Why give them that credit / acknowledgement? Why not just 'rioters in Belfast'?

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      1. Nicole McNicholl‏ @nicolemcn_97 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking disgraceful and embarrassing. these people need to grow up before they destroy everything

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      1. Chris‏ @Armstrongsfoot 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking @MarkSimpson It is time to move on.Would it have been any different if they had decided to put both the Union & Irish Flag up?

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      1. Roger Herbert‏ @Junap 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking I like how you have to explain to the rest of the UK which variety of headbangers loyalists are.

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      1. Gospel Harmonica ‏ @GospelHarmonica 8 Dec 2012
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        @BBCBreaking So much trouble around the world. We in the USA are not immune to it. It's a changing world.

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