A CHURCH of Ireland Rector, forced to leave the North after vicious threats and intimidation from the Orange Order, spoke out last night about the controversial invitation to Order members to march in Cork’s St Patrick’s Day Parade.

Northern Ireland’s police chief was under pressure today following the revelation that Special Branch failed to alert senior officers about a threatened terrorist strike to take place in Omagh on the day of the Real IRA atrocity.

A man whose son was among the 29 who died in the Omagh bombing has said that the perpetrators would now blame police for the loss of life.