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12/09/2001
Residents from north Belfast meet with Reid
Protestant residents from north Belfast met with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State Dr John Reid in Hillsborough to discuss recent events surrounding Holy Cross Primary School in Ardoyne.
The meeting, which included 14 residents from the protestant Glenbryn estate in north Belfast and two facilitators, took place in Hillsborough Castle around 7pm on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting Stewart McCartney, a youth worker in north Belfast, said: “All I am prepared to say is that we appreciate the fact that the Secretary of State took the time to hear the issues from the peoples mouths, there aren’t many people who have been prepared to do that.”
For the past eight days loyalists have been holding a protest outside the catholic primary school, which sits in the protestant Glenbryn area. Loyalists initiated the blockade in response to alleged attacks on protestant homes in north Belfast.
Catholic children and parents have been given a police escort to the catholic school gates of Holy Cross Primary School since the dispute began.
In this second week of the dispute, protestors have been standing in silence with their backs turned as parents walk their children to school, but become noisy and abusive on the parents’ return journey.
Mr McCartney, a youth worker in north Belfast said Protestant resident’s had been thinking about calling off the daily protest as a mark of respect to the victims of the New York and Washington attacks. But he added: “Whether it’s a bomb at Canary Wharf or whether it’s a famine in Kenya there are still tragedies here which we have to focus on.”
On Tuesday morning talks took place between Father Aidan Troy, chairman of the board of governors of the Holy Cross Primary School and representatives of the loyalist protestors. The meeting, which lasted an hour, were described as merely “exploratory”. (AMcE)
The meeting, which included 14 residents from the protestant Glenbryn estate in north Belfast and two facilitators, took place in Hillsborough Castle around 7pm on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting Stewart McCartney, a youth worker in north Belfast, said: “All I am prepared to say is that we appreciate the fact that the Secretary of State took the time to hear the issues from the peoples mouths, there aren’t many people who have been prepared to do that.”
For the past eight days loyalists have been holding a protest outside the catholic primary school, which sits in the protestant Glenbryn area. Loyalists initiated the blockade in response to alleged attacks on protestant homes in north Belfast.
Catholic children and parents have been given a police escort to the catholic school gates of Holy Cross Primary School since the dispute began.
In this second week of the dispute, protestors have been standing in silence with their backs turned as parents walk their children to school, but become noisy and abusive on the parents’ return journey.
Mr McCartney, a youth worker in north Belfast said Protestant resident’s had been thinking about calling off the daily protest as a mark of respect to the victims of the New York and Washington attacks. But he added: “Whether it’s a bomb at Canary Wharf or whether it’s a famine in Kenya there are still tragedies here which we have to focus on.”
On Tuesday morning talks took place between Father Aidan Troy, chairman of the board of governors of the Holy Cross Primary School and representatives of the loyalist protestors. The meeting, which lasted an hour, were described as merely “exploratory”. (AMcE)
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