1.   And, unfortunately, sectarian attacks were not at all uncommon.

2.   In return, there has been a growing incidence of sectarian attacks from the loyalist paramilitaries.

3.   Alliance leader John Alderdice held emergency talks with the security chief at Stormont on the recent spate of murders and sectarian attacks.

4.   A few weeks earlier, three young brothers died in their beds when their house in Ballymoney was firebombed in a sectarian attack.

5.   But after a brief period of calm, sectarian attacks once again are becoming routine.

6.   Sectarian attacks on Catholics by loyalist gangs have increased.

7.   Police said it was unclear whether it was a sectarian attack.

8.   Police blamed pro-British militants for abducting and killing a Roman Catholic man Tuesday, the latest in a string of ugly sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland.