The Glorious twelfth update and rumour mill

Things seem to have gone well at the 17 main parade venues today and the local parades. I was up at Ardoyne for the Ballysillan Lodges and residents return home along the Crumlin Road. No missiles or golfballs this time, just a solitary firework with a harmeless bang UPDATE there were six bottles, three paint bombs and two fireworks thrown/used and an attack on Twaddell an hour after the parade. At Dunloy they held their wreath-laying ceremony without a repeat of an illegal protest. The Twelfth rumour mill (a notoriously unreliable rumour mill) is claiming the Ballynafeigh and Londonderry parades were attacked on their return route/evening parade, can any sluggerite confirm or deny this? Update Both confirmed by media outlets.

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