The Facebook group, "Kill the Fascist PSNI Pigs XOXO", has been 'liked' by over 10,000 people since Monday, as Northern Ireland enters its annual 'inciting sectarian hatred and retaliating with organised violence' season.

A flash mob gathered on the streets of Derry, although no-one recalls having organised a flash mob, and this one did not disperse before they had either crashed a bus, torched a car or updated their Facebook status to: "Politics: It's complicated."

Community leaders have also highlighted the fact that it's good to see the kids out on the streets during the summer months, getting some exercise and fresh air, between the walls of flame and tear gas.

Patrick Fitzpatrick, a community outreach worker said: 'It's not right that these kids are in at night, playing on Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto. These games are inherently violent and just put ideas into their impressionable young heads, so they do. Better then, that they're on the streets with their mates, kicking the shit out of local Bobbies."

A police spokesman, Royston Truncheon said, "It's great to see the wee'uns being so actively involved in local matters. Time was when we thought that no-one really had an opinion about the burning issues of the day and things got really rather bland around here. But when you see the flames from a petrol bomb illuminating their little eyes and the sheer hatred in them for something they cannot truly understand, it gets you right here!"

At which point he clenched his fist across his chest and thumped a molten flak jacket.

Ian Paisley Jr. was sadly available for comment.