MLAs holding emergency session after days of rioting
Arlene Foster, the DUP first minister, is speaking now.
She says when politics fails in Northern Ireland, the vacuum will be filled by people offering destruction and despair.
Naomi Long said it was particularly depressing that some of those involved in the rioting were children, some as young as 12 or 13. She said the fact they were being encouraged by adults to get involved in violent confrontation was “nothing short of child abuse”.
She said there were many theories as to why the rioting was happening, and that there could be “an element of truth in each of them”.
