Police in the North have arrested six people after a masked man at a republican commemoration threatened further violence by dissidents opposed to the peace process.

An Tanáiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore said he was "disgusted" by the Real IRA rally in Derry yesterday.

Police have said they are investigating a Real IRA rally in Derry.

Prison officers last night forcibly removed a group of republican inmates who barricaded themselves into a dining hall at the North’s top security jail.

Republican prisoners who have barricaded themselves into a dining hall at the North’s top security jail continued their protest today.