13 years on Fr Aidan Troy recalls the Holy Cross protests, writes Dan Buckley

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

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.

Security chiefs were today meeting a school governors’ chief to discuss whether parents should continue taking their children through a volatile loyalist area in north Belfast where a blast bomb injured two police officers.