Word: glenbryn
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...Simpson makes his rounds in an armored Land Rover through North Belfast, one of the few districts where it's still too dangerous for routine foot patrols. His first visit is to Jim Potts, a unionist community official. A tall green "peace fence" winds between the streets, separating unionist Glenbryn from nationalist Ardoyne. Potts tells Simpson about a small riot over the weekend involving 40 or 50 people from each side of the fence. In times past, such altercations might have had deadly consequences. Potts himself was charged with fighting during a high-profile 2001 protest against Catholics who were...
...Simpson makes his rounds in an armored Land Rover through North Belfast, one of the few districts where it's still too dangerous for routine foot patrols. His first visit is to Jim Potts, a unionist community official. A tall green "peace fence" winds between the streets, separating unionist Glenbryn from nationalist Ardoyne. Potts tells Simpson about a small riot over the weekend involving 40 or 50 people from each side of the fence. In times past, such altercations might have had deadly consequences. Potts himself was charged with making an affray at high-profile 2001 protests against Catholics using...
...pattern of residential segregation is clearly present around Holy Cross. Its pupils come from Ardoyne, a Catholic area where the row houses are filled by a young and growing population. The residents would like to expand into the Protestant areas nearby, including Glenbryn, where the school is located. There the people tend to be aging or moving to the suburbs, so public housing often lies empty. But the remaining residents don't want to give up those houses to Catholics and see their territory gradually swallowed...
...pattern of residential segregation is certainly present around Holy Cross. Its pupils come from Ardoyne, a Catholic area where the terraced houses that line its long streets are filled by a young and growing population. They would like to expand into the Protestant areas nearby, including Glenbryn, where the school itself is located, built a few months before the Troubles erupted in 1969. There the people tend to be aging or moving to the suburbs, meaning that public housing often lies empty. But the remaining residents don't want to give up those houses to Catholics and see their...
...Protestants of Glenbryn claim that Catholics, backed by the Irish Republican Army, are manufacturing the scenes at Holy Cross by insisting upon taking their children to school on a Protestant street, rather than a longer but neutral back way. They see it all as part of a campaign to force them out and divert blame for the I.R.A.'s failure to disarm. Catholic parents say the attacks are based purely on bigotry. Some parents chose the less contentious route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between...
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