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22/01/2003
Holy Cross priest targeted for death threats
Father Aidan Troy, the priest who guided Holy Cross school through the darkest days of loyalist protests, has revealed that threats against his life have been made in recent days.
Fr Troy was attending the Peace and Reconciliation Forum in Dublin today where he told delegates that the police had approached him with warnings that two threats had been made against him.
The Holy Cross board of governors chairman said that one threat specified that he would be killed within two days. However, Fr Troy did not blame the loyalist residents of the area for the threats, saying instead that it takes "only one sick mind or a perverted person to create fear, intimidation and a form of terrorism".
Fr Troy first gained prominence when loyalists from the Glenbryn estate in Ardoyne mounted a series of protests at the gates of the Catholic girls school. Despite the protests formally concluding in November 2001, loyalist paramilitary groups have since targeted the school.
Earlier this month, the Red Hand Defenders admitted attaching a pipe bomb to the entrance gates of the school on the pupils' first day back following the Christmas break.
(GMcG)
Fr Troy was attending the Peace and Reconciliation Forum in Dublin today where he told delegates that the police had approached him with warnings that two threats had been made against him.
The Holy Cross board of governors chairman said that one threat specified that he would be killed within two days. However, Fr Troy did not blame the loyalist residents of the area for the threats, saying instead that it takes "only one sick mind or a perverted person to create fear, intimidation and a form of terrorism".
Fr Troy first gained prominence when loyalists from the Glenbryn estate in Ardoyne mounted a series of protests at the gates of the Catholic girls school. Despite the protests formally concluding in November 2001, loyalist paramilitary groups have since targeted the school.
Earlier this month, the Red Hand Defenders admitted attaching a pipe bomb to the entrance gates of the school on the pupils' first day back following the Christmas break.
(GMcG)
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