High-profile Union flag demonstrator Willie Frazer has vowed he will not be intimidated by those responsible for an overnight arson attack on his home.

Loyalists look set to delay plans to stage a rally in Dublin in protest at the lowering of the union flag above Belfast City Hall.

Gardaí have not received notification from the org-anisers of a controversial protest on the union flag issue, just days before a planned demonstration outside Leinster House.

An SDLP councillor, her husband and infant daughter were lucky to avoid injury last night after seven shots were fired at their home.