Petrol bombs, stones and bottles have been thrown at police in Northern Ireland after they stopped a republican parade entering Belfast city centre.

Petrol bombs have been thrown at a flat in north Belfast.

Police have escaped injury after three petrol bombs were thrown at their vehicle.

Police in the North are investigating a petrol bomb attack in Co Tyrone early this morning.

A 33-year-old Blarney, Co Cork, man accused of throwing a lighting petrol bomb into a house as well as assaulting a woman and three counts of threatening to kill women, complained yesterday about a delay in his case.

There has been a massive spike in reported racist incidents — including a petrol bomb attack and one incident where a boy, aged 9, was assaulted by a 30-year-old man — since the start of the year.