In loyalist-controlled neighborhoods in Newtownebeu and Carrickferguas, police officers are strewn with fuel bottles and bricks.
However, the clashes did not last as long as the night to Sunday.
Disorder in loyal neighborhoods in Northern Ireland has continued throughout the week.
27 police officers were injured in clashes in Belfast and Londonderry on Saturday night.
Dissatisfaction among loyalists has increased over the Brexit agreement, which introduced customs controls between Northern Ireland and the rest of Britain to avoid reintroducing border controls between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
The loyalty of the loyalists has been further fueled by the authorities’ decision not to punish 24 politicians from the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein who attended a large-scale funeral of a Republican under Covid-19 quarantine.
All unionist parties have called for the resignation of Chief Constable Simon Child of the Northern Ireland Police Service (PSNI) as he has lost the confidence of Protestant communities.
Loyalist-police relations have also recently been undermined by a number of anti-drug raids against the Southeast Entrim Ulster Defense Association (UDA), a group that has separated from the rest of the UDA after laying down its arms.
The authorities believe that part of the disorder was organized by this renegade group.
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