A home was attacked in the university area of Belfast as hundreds of students took to the streets for a demonstration, it was claimed today.
The students were protesting against a BBC television programme which highlighted anti-social problems in the Holylands area of Belfast.
Angry students claimed the programme depicted them in a negative way. Residents of the area said the home of a contributor to the programme was attacked.
A police spokeswoman confirmed that officers were called to the scene last night. "Some residents reported the students were gathering and making noise. There were no arrests," she said.
Student representatives said a minority were involved in the trouble, but Ms Bronagh Hinds from the Rugby Residents Association said people were left terrified.
"They are chucking bottles and things at us and they are running around talking about students being discriminated against and it's their area," she said.
The vice-president of Queen's Students Union Mr Kevin McGourty said there had been ongoing problems in the Holylands area.
"Obviously students have their grievances to air but as a political representative on behalf of students, I hear there has been a resident assaulted and a resident removed from his home.
"I think that is absolutely despicable and something that we will have to deal with within the university itself," he said.
The Spotlight current affairs programme showed scenes of drunken students urinating in doorways and playing hurley in the early hours of the morning. Queen's University admitted that no-one had been suspended for anti-social behaviour but had vowed to introduce a zero tolerance policy against unruly students.
Mr McGourty said the trouble was caused by a rogue element in the area and the university was determined to stamp it out.