Petrol bomb attack on Orange hall
AN Orange hall in Dunloy has suffered its third sectarian attack within a week.
The Co Antrim facility suffered scorch damage following a petrol bomb attack during the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Graffiti was also daubed on a wall.
The hall was subjected to a paint bomb attack and other sectarian graffiti last week.
Ballymoney Councillor and Worshipful Master of Dunloy LOL 496, John Finlay, described the latest incident as "a blatant act of sectarianism and intimidation of Protestants".
"Republicans have launched war on the local Protestant population," he said.
"The people that did this are 'sick' and vermin existing in our society. They need to be hunted down and brought before the courts."
Mr Finlay hoped police would take the "third warning" seriously and expressed fears that the hall could be destroyed if attacked again.
North Antrim MLA Declan O'Loan condemned the perpetrators of the incident which came in the aftermath of the annual Twelfth celebrations.
"Attacks such as this one are a clear setback for the whole community, and of course that is precisely the intention of those who carry them out," the SDLP man said.
"But the number of people who actually want a return to constant division is tiny, and the wider community which clearly wants and votes for a shared future must assert itself more strongly.
"We must also insist that those who control our devolved political institutions produce their long promised road map to a shared future without further delay. All the good work of 50 weeks of the year cannot continue to be set at nought again in two weeks of mindless attacks in the marching season."
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