Eggs were thrown and car tyres deflated when the North's Health Minister, Sinn Fein's Ms Bairbre de Brun, visited a hospital in Co Down. About 20 people, including DUP MLA Mr Edwin Poots, gathered to protest outside the Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn.
Two tyres on the Minister's car were let down and eggs were thrown at a senior hospital manager. Ms de Brun left by an exit away from the protesters and later criticised them for damaging a ministerial car and blocking a hospital entrance.