A sectarian thug who wanted to kill and cut up his battered Catholic victim was jailed for 16 years today.

A 13-year-old boy will today appear in court charged with an arson attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena.

Police are mounting undercover patrols to try to halt an escalating sectarian campaign of attacks on Catholic homes, schools and churches in north Antrim.

A Catholic primary school in Ballymena has become the latest target of an ongoing campaign of sectarian attacks by loyalists in the north Antrim area.

Sinn Féin has condemned an overnight petrol bomb attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

I COMMEND Enda Kenny’s challenge to Sinn Féin on crime. It behoves democratic Ireland to ensure all parties adhere to democratic principles.

The North's most senior policeman was today urged to adopt a get-tough attitude to loyalist paramilitary leaders following a recent wave of sectarian attacks.

Ulster Unionist North Antrim Assemblyman Reverend Robert Coulter has said the intimidation of catholic families in the Ahoghill area near Ballymena and ongoing attacks on a Harryville Church must stop immediately.

President Mary McAleese was tonight accused by unionists of failing to apologise properly for comments comparing Nazi prejudice towards Jews to the hatred of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

A policewoman attending the scene of a fatal stabbing in Derry was injured when her patrol was attacked by a mob, it emerged today.

A new type of pipe bomb has been devised by loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, police revealed tonight.