Word: belfasters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sign inside the front door of Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast reads, "If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe...
...sense, the violence was only another bout of the Northern Ireland Troubles that have continued for more than 30 years. Those few square miles of north Belfast around Holy Cross are notorious for sectarian hatred. A fifth of all the killings in Northern Ireland's conflict have happened here. But the terrified, tear-streaked faces of little girls cowering beside their frightened parents left people profoundly shocked. The sight of grown men and women, their faces distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts...
...sign inside the front door of Holy Cross Primary School, in north Belfast, reads: "If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe." Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of Holy Cross - Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11 - got a brutal lesson in belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police...
...sense the violence was only another dreadful bout of the Northern Ireland Troubles that have continued for more than 30 years. Those few square kilometers of north Belfast around Holy Cross are notorious for sectarian hatred: a fifth of all the killings in Northern Ireland's conflict have happened there. But the terrified, tear-streaked faces of little girls cowering beside their frightened parents left people profoundly shocked. The sight of grown men and women, faces distorted by hatred, hurling curses, stones and even a pipe bomb in the direction of children evoked uncomfortable comparisons with the desegregation conflicts...
Images of Loyalist hatred and violence being directed at innocent Catholic four-year-olds in Belfast are far more powerful than any weapons the IRA has stashed away. Indeed, those images actually shift the Northern Ireland spotlight away from the IRA's refusal to begin destroying its weapons and onto the hate-filled extremists in the Protestant community. Four policemen were injured in the Ardoyne section of Belfast, Wednesday, by a blast from a bomb thrown at a group of Catholic children trying to reach the Holy Cross Girls' Primary School. It was the third day of trauma...