Loyalist gangs have engaged in a third consecutive night of rioting throughout Belfast and surrounding areas following the re-routing of a contentious Orange Order parade.

The PSNI has appealed for calm at a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast tomorrow.

Police investigating the riots that followed a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast earlier this month have released CCTV footage of a number of men they want to question in connection with the violence.

The SDLP has accused the PSNI of engaging in aggressive behaviour during an Orange Order parade in Ballymena last night.

A massive protest march in Belfast, which was held after the Orange Order postponed today’s contentious parade, passed off peacefully.

DUP leader Ian Paisley has expressed his anger at the re-routing of a contentious Orange Order parade in Belfast this weekend.

The bitter six-year stand off over the annual Orange Order parade at Drumcree could be resolved within weeks, the local Orange lodge said today as marchers backed away from a confrontation with security forces.

Three men have appeared in court in the North in connection with an attack on police lines at the controversial Orange Order parade in Portadown, Co Armagh, yesterday.

The RUC are questioning two men in connection with a pipe bomb attack in Larne, Co Antrim.