Families of IRA victims abducted and murdered during the conflict in the North are to march at Stormont tomorrow.

A priest warned today that feuding which killed two people should end before more lives are lost.

A cyclist aged in his 60s died today after a hit and run road accident in the North.

A 10-year-old boy is tonight critically ill in hospital after he was knocked down by two cars while walking in Lurgan - the seventh person killed or seriously injured this weekend.

Another person has died from road traffic injuries in the North - the fourth in two days.

IRISH-American dance supremo Michael Flatley has been inundated with get well messages from his huge Irish fan base as he undergoes treatment for a serious illness.

A priest today revealed how dissident republican terrorists told him to warn 11 youths to flee the North or face immediate execution.

Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley today married his leading lady, Niamh O'Brien.

HAIRDRESSER Donna Black was sharpening her scissors last night, ahead of the social wedding of the year today.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds along with Health Minister Mary Harney, JP McManus, John Magnier and members of the Chieftains are expected to be among 250 guests attending tomorrow’s wedding of Michael Flatley to Niamh O’Brien.

AN Irish diplomat has been forced to flee the North because of death threats from anti-Catholic extremists, the Government said yesterday.

A senior Irish diplomat has been transferred out of Belfast due to death threats from loyalist paramilitaries.

Hopes were rising today that peaceful Orange Order parades in the North could indicate a change of mindsets, leading to durable peace and tolerance.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain tonight defended his controversial decision to release the Shankill bomber Sean Kelly.

Petrol bombs were thrown at a Catholic Church today – just days after the parish priest called for the release of the Shankill bomber Sean Kelly.

The local parish priest in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast has called on the British government to release Shankill bomber Sean Kelly from prison.

Campaigners against suicide in the North have condemned the loyalists who erected a slogan on a bonfire in Belfast earlier this week poking fun at nationalists who have taken their own lives.

A police chief today urged officers to fire baton rounds sooner, in a bid to halt any repeat of the rioting that left nearly 90 people injured in Belfast.

Nearly 90 people were injured in serious rioting in north Belfast after a contentious Orange Parade, police said today.

A small group of nationalists has blocked the Crumlin Road in north Belfast as part of a protest against two Orange Order parades in the area later today.

The man sentenced to four years for the manslaughter of student Brian Murphy outside Dublin’s Club Anabel was unfairly put “in the spotlight” for the killing, a court heard today.

FR AIDAN TROY has been called in to broker a truce between two families feuding over the burial plot of a suicide victim.

A priest has been called in to broker a truce between two families feuding over a burial plot, it emerged today.

A family row over where a suicide victim should be buried led to disturbances last night near Belfast city centre.

A FIANNA FÁIL councillor has backed Holy Cross priest Fr Aidan Troy’s claim that the jailing of Dermot Laide for the manslaughter of Brian Murphy was a miscarriage of justice.

A seven-week trial did nothing to establish how Brian Murphy was killed in a savage and drunken attack, his father claimed today.

A MAJOR drive was launched yesterday to stop the spate of teenage suicides in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

A parish priest in Belfast has expressed his concern about the high number of suicides among young men in north Belfast.

Residents of the Ardoyne area of north Belfast have called on the Parades Commission to reverse its decision to allow two Orange marches through the area tomorrow.

BELFAST parish priest Fr Aidan Troy yesterday described the tarring of two Ardoyne teenagers, victims of a so-called punishment attack by the INLA republican paramilitary group, as child abuse.

A Catholic priest today denounced a so-called punishment attack on two teenagers in north Belfast by republicans over Easter, describing it as “child abuse”.

A CATHOLIC priest caught up in loyalist protests at Holycross Primary School in Belfast has been told he will be killed within days.

Fr Aidan Troy, from the Holy Cross parish in Belfast, has revealed he has received two loyalist death threats in recent weeks.

CHILDREN attending a north Belfast school targeted by loyalists have been forced back into counselling following Monday’s discovery of a pipe bomb on the premises.

A PIPE bomb was defused at a flashpoint school in north Belfast yesterday.

A pipe bomb attack on a flashpoint primary school in north Belfast will not signal the start of a new protest campaign by loyalists, it was claimed tonight.

The chairman of the board of governors at the Catholic Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast said he hopes the discovery of a pipe bomb at the school earlier today does not signal the start of a new sectarian campaign.

A suspected pipe bomb was defused at a flashpoint school in north Belfast today.

P.E.A.C.E (Prayer Enterprise and Christian Effort) is pleased to announce that the following have been designated Peace People of the Year 2002: EU commissioner Chris Patten; Sandra Peake, Wave Trauma Centre, Belfast; Brid Rodgers deputy leader, SDLP; Fr Aidan Troy, Holycross Retreat, Belfast.

Two well-known figures in the Catholic Church today added their voices to calls for an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse.

A PRIEST at the centre of the Holy Cross dispute spoke of his fears yesterday for the new term as children prepare to return to school at a north Belfast flashpoint.

The chairman of the board of governors at the Holy Cross girls’ primary school in north Belfast has expressed concern ahead of the beginning of the new school term.

A Sinn Fein Assembly member has said police chiefs were trying to set a trap for Ardoyne Catholics by warning that a riot was being planned during the annual Twelfth of July Orange marches.

The British government has ruled out building a 40ft wall between Catholic and Protestant communities near the Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast.