Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has made a complaint to police in the North after an effigy of him was dangled from a mock gallows attached to a three-storey bonfire prepared for the Orange Order celebrations.

A man, woman and a four-year-old boy have escaped injury after a shot was fired into a house in Co. Antrim last night

The shooting of a 17-year-old youth in Antrim was being investigated by police today.