Derry priest warns of attempts to use young people to bring violence back to streets in the North

A priest from the Creggan area in Derry who comforted the partner and family of murdered journalist Lyra McKee in Altnagelvin Hospital on the night she was shot has told of his concern at attempts to use young people “to bring violence back to the streets.”

Derry priest warns of attempts to use young people to bring violence back to streets in the North

A priest from the Creggan area in Derry who comforted the partner and family of murdered journalist Lyra McKee in Altnagelvin Hospital on the night she was shot has told of his concern at attempts to use young people “to bring violence back to the streets.”

Reverend Joseph Gormley of St Mary's Presbytery in Creggan told Newstalk Breakfast “these tactics will never work.”

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