Loyalists blocked last rites visit

Loyalists at a Co Down roadblock prevented a priest from going to give the last rites to a parishioner during the disturbances…

Loyalists at a Co Down roadblock prevented a priest from going to give the last rites to a parishioner during the disturbances in the North last week. Orangemen stopped the priest at a makeshift barricade on the main road outside Comber, a mainly Protestant town. He was told he would be receiving the last rites himself if he did not go back.

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