Further clashes in Ardoyne tonight

There was more violence in north Belfast this evening as parents arrived to take their children home from the Holy Cross school in Ardoyne.

One grandmother was hit on the head by a flying brick and parents were forced to take a three-quarter mile detour to pick up their children at the back door of another school.

Sinn Fein claims the RUC refused to clear loyalists off the road when asked.

The so-called Red Hand Defenders, a loose alliance of the UDA and the LVF, have threatened the lives of parents taking their children to school.