The teenage daughter of a prison officer has had to receive hospital treatment after an arson attack on the family's home in Portadown, Co Armagh.
The 17-year-old girl was alone in the house when a gang of men forced their way in and set fire to the property late on Sunday night. The girl had to be treated for shock and the effects of smoke inhalation. The chairman of the Northern Ireland Prison Officers' Association, Mr Finlay Spratt, condemned the attack insisting that the family had been targeted because of the father's job.
"We are supposed to have a peace process here but the reality is that for prison officers and their families we are not getting the benefit of the peace process," he added.
Meanwhile, British army technical officers have defused a pipe bomb after it was found by a young boy in the grounds of Michael Davitt's Gaelic Athletic Club in Swatragh, Co Derry, on Sunday evening.
In north Belfast, the loyalist residents' protest at Holy Cross Primary School in the Ardoyne entered its sixth week yesterday with protesters blowing horns and whistles at Catholic parents picking up their children.
The protest appeared to be on a smaller scale than in previous weeks but this was at least partly due to dismal weather conditions.
Protestant residents of Upper Ardoyne said they were willing to call off their protest immediately if the Catholic parents were prepared to take their children to school via an alternative route along the Crumlin Road.
A spokesman for the residents, Mr Stuart McCartney, alleged that the parents' daily school run had become a "protest walk" with some people on it completely unconnected to the children.
A spokesman for the "Right to Education" group, which is closely connected to the Catholic parents, Mr Brendan Mailey, said the residents' condition that children would have to take the Crumlin Road was a "non-starter".
Meanwhile, police have appealed for information after Ballygolan Primary School in the Serpentine Road area of north Belfast came under attack for the second weekend in succession.