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| A couple and their baby have escaped injury in a gun attack on their County Antrim home. | A couple and their baby have escaped injury in a gun attack on their County Antrim home. |
| The family were asleep when three shots were fired through a window of their house at Drumahoe Drive, in the Sunnylands estate in Carrickfergus. | The family were asleep when three shots were fired through a window of their house at Drumahoe Drive, in the Sunnylands estate in Carrickfergus. |
| Wednesday night's attack is being linked to a feud between the mainstream Ulster Defence Association and a breakaway faction in south-east Antrim. | Wednesday night's attack is being linked to a feud between the mainstream Ulster Defence Association and a breakaway faction in south-east Antrim. |
| Mayor David Hilditch said police were carrying out searches in the area. | Mayor David Hilditch said police were carrying out searches in the area. |
| "Fortunately no one has been hurt here tonight. It could have been very much different. | |
| "It is of grave concern that this incident which we would be linking to the loyalist feud in Carrickfergus, the UDA feud, that somone hasn't been seriously hurt tonight." | |
| Intimidation | |
| He said there had been an "ongoing situation" since a policeman was shot in the nearby Castlemara estate in July. | |
| "We have had a catalogue of incidents ranging from low-level intimidation to shootings and pipe bombings throughout that three-month period. We are getting sick of it here in Carrickfergus," he said. | |
| In August, Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie gave the UDA 60 days to begin decommissioning or she threatened to stop funding for a loyalist initiative. | |
| That deadline passed on Tuesday night. | |
| It is understood Ms Ritchie is due to make a statement on loyalist funding later on Thursday. |