Pipe bomb attack at GAA club

Two pipe bombs have exploded in a car left outside a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Armoy, County Antrim.

The devices were left in an abandoned vehicle at the Glenshesk Road on Monday morning.

They were made safe by the army.

A separate security alert at a GAA club in Ballycastle, in north County Antrim, was declared a hoax.

A pipe bomb has also exploded in Limavady, County Londonderry.

A man picked up the bomb outside a house in the Roe Mill road area of the town.

He threw it onto grass shortly before it went off.

'Sectarian' attack on family

Meanwhile, the police condemned what they described as an "entirely sectarian" petrol bomb attack on the home of a Catholic family in Armagh.

No-one was injured in the attack, but scorch damage was caused to the house in Rosemount Park in the city on Sunday night.

The people who carried this out have nothing to offer society

Superintendent Bob Moore

Police investigating the incident found another petrol bomb abandoned nearby.

RUC Superintendent Bob Moore, the commanding officer in Armagh, said the attack had the potential to cause death or serious injury.

"The people who carried it out have nothing to offer society," he said.

"They must be made to face the full rigour of the law, and I ask for the support of the community to help bring them to justice.

"We cannot allow this type of behaviour to happen."