Protestant cleric attacks invite to Orangemen

A CHURCH of Ireland clergyman, who was driven from his Northern home, has said Orange zealots should be banned from taking part in Cork’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

The award winning peace activist, the Reverend David Armstrong, based at St Mary’s Church in Carrigaline Union, Co Cork, said “this tribe of bigots” has nothing to offer the people of Cork.

He expressed his utter dismay that members of the Orange Order from the North had been invited to take part in Cork’s special City of Culture parade.