'Assembly has duty to tackle sectarianism'

The Northern Ireland Assembly must launch a “major assault on sectarianism” to prevent the North slipping back into “the nightmare years of the past”, MLAs were told today.

After a weekend of more street clashes in east Belfast, pipe bomb attacks, sectarian assaults in Derry and Kilrea and an attack on a Free Presbyterian open-air gospel service in Randalstown, Workers Party chairman John Lowry said the eradication of sectarianism must be a top priority.