Petrol bombs were thrown at police during an anti-agreement republican parade through the Creggan area. The parade took place exactly 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed and a day before US president Joe Biden is due to visit the north to mark its anniversary.
A masked colour party led the un-notified parade from Creggan Shops to the City Cemetery where a commemoration was held.
The colour party included more than a dozen people.
The letters ‘IRA’ were fixed to lampposts along the route while a PSNI helicopter hovered overhead.
The annual event was organised by the Derry 1916 Commemoration Committee, which has the support of anti-agreement party Saoradh.
Several dozen youths attacked a PSNI Land Rover with petrol bombs.
The vehicle, which was mounted with a CCTV camera, had parked at a junction along the route.
Several other PSNI vehicles sped from the area after they were also targeted close to St Mary’s Church, which is nearby.
As participants at the parade made their way out of the City Cemetery, they removed their paramilitary uniforms under the cover of umbrellas and burnt them.
Police harassed another masked colour party which led an Easter Rising parade in west Belfast on Sunday.
The Irish Republican Socialist Party organised the parade on the Falls Road.
Parade participants were issued with warnings and footage was gathered by police who will review it as part of an investigation.
The march then moved to a republican plot at Milltown Cemetery, where a speech was given that referenced Palestine and criticised “two failed statelets who continue to uphold British rule in Ireland”.
A French Antifascist group marched in solidarity with the parade.
They carried a banner on the parade on Saturday through west Belfast, reading: “We serve no king nor president – but the revolution” (a variation on James Connolly’s republican slogan: We serve neither king nor kaiser, but Ireland).
In Lurgan, the group Saoradh held an Easter Commemoration in St Mary’s Cemetery on Saturday.
In a statement it said: “Participants gathered at St Mary’s Church before they made their way to the Republican Plot led by wreath bearers and a banner depicting the martyred 1916 signatories.
“The entire event was surveilled under the watchful eye of the Crown Forces who positioned themselves in a number of vantage points and circled the cemetery in armoured cars.
“Proceedings were chaired by Newry’s Saoradh representative Stephen Murney who welcomed everyone to the event and thanked them for attending.
“Stephen pointed out that Easter is an important time of year for Irish Republicans everywhere. It’s a time when we reflect, recommit and rededicate ourselves to the Republican struggle.
“Tributes were also paid to Republican Prisoners and their families.
“Stephen then called for Ray O’Hanlon to read the 1916 proclamation. Following that wreaths were laid on behalf of the IRPWA, Éistigí and Saoradh.”