“These bigots have nothing to offer us”

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.

Reverend David Armstrong, 56, a rector at St Mary’s Church in Carrigaline Union, Co Cork, said he felt a deep sense of bewilderment and disbelief when he heard the Cork 2005 office had issued the invitation.

“I fear that ordinary decent Catholic people in the North will see Cork open its doors for this tribe of bigots to march through their streets,” he said.