Threats made against resident groups spokesmen

Nationalist residents groups cast doubt today over their involvement in a conference on the Northern Ireland parades issue after two of their leading spokesmen received death threats from a renegade loyalist group.

Postal workers intercepted two packages containing live rounds of ammunition and threats purporting to come from the Orange Volunteers yesterday to Garvaghy Road Residents spokesman Breandan Mac Cionnaith and Lower Ormeau Concerned Community spokesman Gerard Rice.