A hunger strike commemoration has been cancelled in Co Antrim in a bid to ease tensions over the sectarian murder of fifteen year old Catholic schoolboy Micheal McIlveen last weekend.
Sinn Féin said the planned vigil near Ballymena, Co Antrim, where Michael was beaten to death had been called off.
The move was also as a mark of respect for the victim's family, the party said.
Philip McGuigan, Sinn Féin's North Antrim MLA, said: "It became obvious to us that there were elements within unionism and loyalism that were intent on causing some kind of protest on Friday night, so we had no desire to do anything that would add to community tensions."
The memorial event for Francis Hughes, one of ten republican prisoners who starved themselves to death inside the Maze prison in 1981, was to have been held in the village of Portglenone.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin has urged the Northern Ireland Assembly to hold a minute's silence for Michael when it reconvenes next week. Mr McGuigan confirmed his party had proposed to Stormont Speaker Eillen Bell that it should be the first item of business.
Although funeral arrangements for the St Patrick's High School pupil have still to be finalised, the Democratic Unionist MP for Ballymena, Ian Paisley, has been invited to attend by the family.
The gesture has been seen as an attempt to strengthen cross-community relationships in a town stunned by the murder.