A Protestant enclave in republican west Belfast has come under attack with stones being thrown at a house and four cars damaged.

Up to 100 nationalist youths attacked the loyalist Suffolk area at around 10pm on Friday night, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The assault in Ringford Park occurred after police were called out to a house party in the nationalist Brooke Drive area. Some youths had moved into the street and scuffled with police.

Local Sinn Féin councillor Matt Garrett condemned the attacks as sectarian and called for a greater police presence in the area.

"There are people working hard at the Blacks Road/Lenadoon/Suffolk interface to make sure that residents can get on with their lives free from this type of behaviour," he said.

"It is not representative of the people that live in the area and I would say a lot of those involved are from outside the area."

At the same time in Derry one of the last symbols of Ulster loyalism on the city's west bank came under attack for the fourth consecutive night.

Stonework and new doors fitted to the Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall beside the city's ancient walls were vandalised on Friday.

The hall, which is the headquarters of the loyalist marching institution whose roots lie in the 1689 siege of the city, has come under a bombardment of bricks, bottles and stones over the last four nights.

The governor of the Apprentice Boys, Jim Brownlee, said the people responsible were motivated by hatred.

"They are of a sectarian mindset whereby they feel it is right and proper to paintbomb what they see as a hall that is nothing to do with what they believe in – but that is purely destructive, it is sectarian, it is hate-filled. These people don't have a clue as regards history or culture."

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, condemned the attacks as "shameful" while local SDLP MP Mark Durkan called on the community to give information to the police to bring those responsible to justice.