Large crowds gather for anti-immigration protest outside Co Antrim hotel
Around 200 people gathered outside the Chimney Corner Hotel in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.
Pictures from Saturday's protest
Many held banners and placards with slogans including 'Demographic replacement is genocide', 'Stop the invasion' and 'Illegal migration threatens our families and our nation'.
Pictures from Saturday's protest
Among the protesters was addiction-recovery influencer Lynsey Brown and west Belfast activist Tony Mallon, who recently founded political group NI People's Party.
Pictures from Saturday's protest
After being arrested in relation to arson attacks on 5G masts across west Belfast, he told a newspaper last month there is 'absolutely no evidence' to connect him with the fires.
Pictures from Saturday's protest
Posting on Facebook about yesterday's protest, Mallon said: 'Happy to support pocket rocket Lynsey Brown speaking up at Chimney Corner, where the government thinks it's OK to place illegal immigrants in a hotel facing a nursery as our homeless are left living on the streets in tents.'
Pictures from Saturday's protest
Stephen Baker, one of the event organisers, spoke to the crowd via a loud-hailer. His words were greeted with chants of 'Get them out'.
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