Police have been attacked with petrol bombs in sporadic trouble in a republican area of Northern Ireland.

Officers also had to draw batons in angry confrontations with a crowd made up mainly of youths in the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, County Armagh, on Monday.

Tensions in the area have been running high as republicans seek to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising.

Elsewhere in Lurgan, there had been concerns of trouble around an Easter Monday parade by the Apprentice Boys of Derry Protestant loyal order, but that event passed off without incident.

In Kilwilkie petrol bombs were thrown at police and a van was hijacked and set on fire. Burning bins were placed on the railway line later in the day.

Ulster Unionist councillor Colin McCusker condemned those behind the trouble.

"Once again Lurgan's name has been dragged through the mud by republican thugs," he said.

On Saturday, masked men marched through Kilwilkie, a staunchly republican neighbourhood, to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.