Police in the North are investigating an attack on an Orange Hall in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

Police were pelted with petrol bombs after a loyalist band parade marched through the mainly nationalist village of Rasharkin last night.

Protests are due to be held today against a contentious loyalist parade that has been granted permission to march through the mainly Catholic village of Rasharkin in Co Antrim.

Residents in the mainly Catholic village of Rasharkin in Co Antrim are asking the Parades Commission to re-think its decision to sanction a loyalist parade next Friday.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today condemned last night's rioting in Belfast's Ardoyne area and said the Orange Order and republican politicians should hold talks on the small number of parades which are still linked to tension in the North.

North Belfast was picking up the pieces today after the worst night of violence for years.

Protestants in the North face "ethnic cleansing" despite the peace process, the leader of the Orange Order claimed today.

Police are today investigating an attack on an Orange Hall that plays a central role in the Order’s July 12 parades in Belfast.

TWO people were killed and at least 16 taken to hospital last night following a road crash in Co Kildare.

An Orange Hall in Co Antrim has been targeted by vandals, it was revealed today.

Police in the North were forced to use CS spray when trouble broke out following an Orange parade in Co Antrim last night.

Police in the North have released the man they were questioning in connection with a road accident in which two young women were killed.

Two young women are dead following a three-car road accident in Co Antrim.

UNIONIST leaders should be barred from serving in government if they cannot uphold the rule of law, US special envoy Mitchell Reiss said yesterday.

Unionist leaders should be barred from serving in government in Northern Ireland if they cannot uphold the rule of law, United States special envoy Mitchell Reiss said today.

Sectarian attacks on Catholic homes in the north Antrim area must stop and those responsible for the violence must be brought to justice, the Rev Ian Paisley said today.

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

THE DUP has condemned the latest wave of sectarian attacks after another night of violence in the North.

Young people must be shielded from the sectarian violence plaguing parts of the North, the children’s commissioner said tonight.

LOYALISTS were accused yesterday of raising sectarian tensions after being blamed for a series of attacks on Catholic bars and churches in Co Antrim.

A clean-up operation is underway after a river broke its banks in the Co Antrim village of Rasharkin.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

The Provisional IRA was accused of involvement in a bombing outside an army base in Derry early today.