Holycross priest told he would be killed ‘within days’

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

Father Aidan Troy, the chairman of the board of governors at the school in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, told the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation yesterday that police officers had twice warned him of threats to his life.

“The most recent threat relayed to me was by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, who told me I would be killed within two days,” he told the forum, which met in Dublin Castle yesterday.