SF condemns petrol bomb attack on Catholic school

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

The party said a number of devices were thrown at the school in the Harryville area of the mainly Protestant town last night.

The incident is the latest in a spate of attacks on Catholic homes and premises throughout north Antrim over the past few weeks that are being blamed on the UDA.

Sinn Féin claimed it was "ironic" that the attack came on the same day that loyalists launched a campaign to promote their culture and to counter the perceived 'republican-isation' of the North.