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...from vandals and burglars to murderers and terrorists. "School-related terrorism incidents are extremely rare, but they do occur," says Michael Dorn, a school security expert with Jane's Information Group who is writing a book about terrorism in schools. Protestants left pipe bombs near a Catholic school in Belfast in 2001 and 2003. Last November, arsonists set fire to a new wing of an Orthodox Jewish school in Gagny, a suburb east of Paris. Sixteen children and their teacher were shot dead at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996. Two teenagers cut down 12 fellow pupils...
...While the fans of Rangers and Celtic will continue to treat the Glasgow derby match as a sectarian fetish for clashes ranging from the Battle of the Boyne to Belfast's Falls Road "troubles", those concerns are increasingly remote for the men who don the blue shirts of Rangers and Celtic's green-and-white hoops. What could it possibly mean to Rangers' Georgian striker Shota Arveladze when those cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic...
Capital Of Despair Hours after the funeral service of a teenage suicide took place in his Belfast church, Father Aidan Troy found himself giving last rites to another boy who hanged himself in the bell tower. The twin suicides are part of a mounting trend: Belfast has gone from being a city with a global reputation for murder to one of the U.K. 's suicide black spots, with as many as a dozen suicides reported there last year. Despite the benefits of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday accord, the effects of 30 years of conflict are aggravating ordinary social...
...unemployment have pushed too many of us to despair." Last year that despair saw the suicide rate in North and West Belfast hit 19 per 100,000 people, almost 60% higher than the average for the U.K. as a whole. For the politicians still struggling to make the peace process work, it's a timely reminder that, even if the guns aren't pointed at each other, stable government can still be a matter of life and death - By Chris Thornton Britons Freed U.K. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that five of nine British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism...
Dawkins pointed to the example of Protestant fundamentalists in Belfast spitting at young Catholic girls merely because their parents labeled them Catholic...