Don't get sucked into this bullshit of "the rioters don't consider themselves Irish" and "they are British loyalists".
If this is a convincing argument to you I would like to ask you, what exactly is it a convincing argument for? The rioters are WHITE and it's a WHITE revolt. Nothing more, nothing less. Fuck all of your divisive false dichotomies. This has nothing to do with Northern Ireland vs Ireland. It's Whites vs the ACTUAL "blacks and tans"