Loyalist crowd protests at Catholic cemetary

A loyalist protest at a Catholic cemetery in Co Antrim  has passed off peacefully.

A crowd of loyalists gathered at the cemetary where Catholics were attending a blessing of the graves ceremony.

Two years ago, Father Dan Whyte, who carried out a blessing of graves at Carnmoney despite a loyalist protest, was told of the paramilitary threat against him.

A group calling itself the Loyalist Action Force threatened the priest's life following the stand he took in 2003 on the sectarian targeting of Catholic graves in the cemetery and the continuation of vandalism against the Church of St Mary's on the Hill.

Today's protest led to a short delay to the ceremony.