There have now been five consecutive nights of ongoing violence and disorder on the streets of Northern Ireland, with Ballymena at the focus of the unrest following a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in the town on 7 June.

Rioters clashed with police in Ballymena, and masked groups set fire to a recreation center in Larne, where families had been given temporary shelter.

On June 11, 2025, in Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland, @jaitimperley shared a video showing a man throwing large stones amid a riot. In the video, police officers are seen gathered near a protest scene when a man holding two heavy stones suddenly hurls them toward the police line.

Disorder has broken out in Northern Ireland for the third successive night, after police said people are "waking up with genuine fear for their lives" following two nights of violence in Ballymena and other areas.

Police in Northern Ireland say 17 officers were injured during a second night of anti-immigrant violence in the town of Ballymena.

The police said that attacks on houses and businesses in the town of Ballymena were being investigated as racially motivated, and that 15 officers had been injured.

Rioters livestreamed themselves burning down a house on TikTok during a second night of racially motivated disorder in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland police say violence in the town of Ballymena, reportedly fueled by racial tension, have left 32 officers injured.

A Romanian in Ballymena has claimed he has “lost everything” after he was wrongly arrested for the attempted rape of a schoolgirl. He spoke after riots broke out in the Northern Ireland town following the appearance in court of two 14-year-old boys charged with attempted rape and who required a Romanian interpreter.