A DUP candidate has described an attack on an Orange Hall in north Belfast as a "clear attempt to raise tensions" on the centenary of the Easter Rising.
The hall, at Clifton Street near the city centre, was attacked with paint bombs on Saturday night.
Police said it was being treated as a hate crime.
The hall has been attacked on several occasions in recent years.
It came hours after loyalists and republicans had traded insults on Belfast's Royal Avenue as an Easter Rising centenary parade passed a counter protest on Sunday morning.
DUP candidate William Humphrey said the hall had been "attacked again by republicans."
"There can be no doubt that the hall was deliberately targeted and paint bombed to coincide with today's Belfast Orange Widows parade and service, in a clear attempt to raise tensions.
"The intolerant and ignorant bigots behind the attack have nothing to offer our society going forward.
He added: "They seek to attack, damage and destroy the Orange Institution's property, while at the same time demonstrating a complete intolerance and disrespect for the Orange culture and tradition."
TUV North Belfast candidate John Miller said the paint attack was "transparently sectarian."ck on an Orange Hall such as this can pass without comment by the media."
