Calls for calm after murder in Ballymena

THE leaders of three Protestant marching organisations in the North issued a dramatic appeal for calm yesterday in the wake of Catholic teenager Michael McIlveen’s murder.

Calls for calm after murder in Ballymena

The three organisations said there could be no justification for what they described as a reprehensible and wicked murder.

Orange Order Grand Master Robert Saulters, the Grand Master of the Independent Loyal Orange Institution, George Dawson, and the Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution, William Logan, also appealed to members of their community with information about the attack to help the police investigation.

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