SINN Féin has blamed unionist leaders for a wave of violence in loyalist areas across the north over the Easter weekend.
Police were attacked and cars hijacked in Newtownabbey on Saturday, 24 hours after violence erupted in parts of Belfast and and Derry during the worst public disorder since the flag protests almost a decade ago.
Petrol bombs and bricks were also thrown at officers in loyalist areas in Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus last night.
It came amid the continuing political fall-out from the Public Prosecution Service's decision not to take action against 24 Sinn Féin members who attended the funeral of veteran republican Bobby Storey last June.
DUP leader Arlene Foster and other unionist leaders have called on Chief Constable Simon Byrne to resign over the policing of the funeral.
North Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly claimed the disturbances "are an out-working of the DUP’s rhetoric and undermining of the PSNI and criminal justice system".
“By their words and actions they have sent a very dangerous message to young people in loyalist areas".
However, DUP MP Gregory Campbell said the riots "are a symptom of the manner in which Sinn Féin has played fast and loose with the Covid rules while zealously demanding everyone else obey them".
Condemning the trouble, he said: "For Gerry Kelly and Sinn Féin to comment on the frustrations on our streets without recognising the major part they played in creating that anger is arrogance personified."
A 47-year-old man has been charged with rioting and throwing a petrol bomb after police came under "orchestrated attack" in the mainly loyalist Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey on Saturday.
In Belfast, 15 police officers were injured after petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police in the Sandy Row area on Friday night.
Seven people were charged with rioting - including boys aged 13, 14 and 17.
A further 12 officers were hurt in Derry on Friday night, in the fifth successive night of violence in the Waterside area.
