The Rev Ian Paisley was criticised yesterday by the parish priest of Carrickmore, Co Tyrone, for using Commons parliamentary privilege last Wednesday to allege that four men from the county "were known by Sinn Fein to be members of the so-called `Real IRA'."
Mgr Denis Faul described as "outrageous" such use of parliamentary privilege, adding: "I am convinced that these men are completely innocent and are not members of any illegal or subversive organisation and certainly are not members of the `Real IRA' or the 32-County Sovereignty Movement."