Mary Lou McDonald urges loyalists to think again about organising further protests

Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill and leader Mary Lou McDonald outside Stormont in Belfast, speaking to media this afternoon following a loyalist protest in the city against Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has urged loyalists contemplating further protests over the Irish Sea border to think again.

Mrs McDonald said such demonstrations had the potential to escalate into violence.