The Crumlin councillor said she had been contacted last week and informed of the threat.

"Although the PSNI have failed to provide any details about this threat, it is clear that those issuing them have nothing to offer our communities and will not deter Sinn Féin from pursing our objectives of Irish Unity," Cllr. Logue said in response to the threat to kill her.

Party colleague, South Antrim MLA Mitchel McLaughlin added: "This is a sick threat against a councillor who works tirelessly for her constituency in South Antrim.

"She works for everyone and I would challenge unionist representatives to speak out and intervene directly to have this threat publicly withdrawn."

Cllr. Logue - who is a member of Antrim District Policing Partnership - and her Sinn Fein colleagues on Antrim council - Henry Cushinan and Anthony Brady - have all had death threats made against them in the last year.

Last October, Cllrs. Brady and Cushinan were visited by the PSNI and informed that their lives are under threat from Loyalist paramilitaries.

At the time, Cllr. Cushinan said the threat would not prevent him from his civic role,

" I can assure everyone that it will not deter me from continuing to work for the people who elected me and for the wider community," he said at the time.