The homes of prominent Sinn Fein figures Gerry Adams and Bobby Storey have been attacked with explosive devices on Friday night.

Sinn Fein former president, Gerry Adams said on his Twitter account that no one was hurt in his house nor in Bobby Storey's.  

The former Sinn Fein leader's grandchildren were in the driveway of his Belfast house.

Sinn Fein calls attacks on Adams and fellow republican figure Bobby Storey in Belfast 'reprehensible and cowardly'.

At a press conference on Saturday, Adams said: “I’d like them or their representatives to come and meet me. I’d like them to sit down and explain to me what this is about.

“I’d like those who are involved in exploiting children in Derry to do the same thing, or those who are poisoning the atmosphere in east Belfast and causing havoc to do the same thing.”

He said he could be contacted through any Sinn Féin office, adding: “So that’s my direct appeal to them … Give us the rationale for this action.”

The attacks on the homes of Adams and Storey, who has served as Sinn Féin’s northern chairman, were condemned as “reprehensible and cowardly” by Gerry Kelly, the party’s policing and justice spokesman.

“I would appeal for calm. These attacks are the desperate acts of increasingly desperate and irrelevant groups,” he said in a statement.

Kelly, the North Belfast member of the legislative assembly, said: “These were reprehensible and cowardly attacks on the family homes of Gerry Adams and Bobby Storey. Grandchildren were in the driveway of Adams’ home minutes before the attack.”

Adams said no one was hurt in the incident but Sinn Féin said one of the devices damaged a car.

The Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, tweeted: “I unequivocally condemn the violence in Derry and Belfast last night. We will not allow a small minority intent on violence to drag Northern Ireland back to the past. We stand with the decent law-abiding people from all communities in the North.”

The attacks come after a week of loyalist violence in the building up of the 12 of July marches commemorating a 1690 Protestant victory over the Catholic king.