Why the anti-immigrant riots in Belfast made me ashamed to be a Northern Protestant

I am not a typical Northern Protestant, with a father who was a left-wing Czech refugee. But part of me identifies with my County Antrim Presbyterian mother, her family and community. As a half-Irish boy growing up in London, a lifelong love affair with Ireland started through my close relationship with my devout grandfather, a lovely man who was an evangelical lay preacher with his own gospel hall outside Ballymena. That identification made me deeply ashamed at the latest anti-immigrant ......