Bombing Children | Ardoyne School Dispute | INSIGHT | RARE Documentary

The Holy Cross girls school dispute occurred in 2001 and 2002 in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the 30-year conflict known as the Troubles, Ardoyne had become segregated - Ulster Protestants and Irish Catholics lived in separate areas.
This left Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls, in the middle of a Protestant area. In June 2001-during the last week of school before the summer break-Protestant loyalists began picketing the school, claiming that Catholics were regularly attacking their homes and denying them access to facilities.
The picket resumed on 3 September, when the new school term began. For weeks, hundreds of loyalist protesters tried to stop the schoolchildren and their parents from walking to school through their area. Hundreds of riot police, backed up by British soldiers, escorted the children and parents through the protest each day. Some protesters shouted sectarian abuse and threw stones, bricks, fireworks, blast bombs and urine-filled balloons at the schoolchildren, their parents and the RUC. The "scenes of frightened Catholic schoolgirls running a gauntlet of abuse from loyalist protesters as they walked to school captured world headlines".Death threats were made against the parents and school staff by the Red Hand Defenders, a loyalist paramilitary group. The protest was condemned by both Catholics and Protestants, including politicians. Some likened the protest to child abuse and compared the protesters to North American white supremacists in the 1950s. During this time, the protest sparked bouts of fierce rioting between Catholics and Protestants in Ardoyne, and loyalist attacks on police. On 23 November, the loyalists ended the protest after being promised tighter security for their area and a redevelopment scheme. The security forces remained outside the school for several months after.
In January 2002, a scuffle between a Protestant and a Catholic outside the school sparked a large-scale riot in the area and attacks on other schools in north Belfast. The picket was not resumed and the situation has been mostly quiet since then.
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[@Gmtar]

If those scumbags were out working they wouldn't be around at that hour of the morning to attack and abuse children.

[@j2msu341]

Jesus, the hypocrisy

[@RobertK1993]

British government let down Ulster Unionists and Loyalists since 1609

[@jdfiend]

Shops

[@JustSean413]

What kind of warped evil hurls abuse, spit and urine at innocent school children? Absolutely shameful.

[@Spintwirl]

This whole documantary feels like they're trying to justify loyalists throwing bottles of piss and stones at wains

[@jameslarkin8494]

And rightly so.

[@thatraboy147]

@@jameslarkin8494 what a scumbag!

[@RobertK1993]

Orange properganda nothing more.

[@RobertK1993]

Sickening sight Ulster Unionists and Loyalists have no morals to lecture Sinn Féin IRA after this.

[@j2msu341]

After 30 years of bombing and murder, yeah sure 👍

[@jdfiend]

The ardoyne ira started that trouble

[@darnellbiggumsthe9th658]

@@jdfiendjust didn’t though did they

[@jdfiend]

@@darnellbiggumsthe9th658 where you based ?

[@stephenholmes1036]

The Red IRA also were active

[@stephenholmes1036]

Thank god we're from the south

[@georgebrowne5935]

This one event changed People's minds across the World on Unionism in Ireland.
It was said less than Animal behaviour.

[@jdfiend]

Shame on the parents

[@benjaminwilliams951]

At 2:08 into the report, love the juxtaposition, the reporter is saying how life in Northern Ireland goes on like normal, while a British Army armored vehicle with armed troops drives past. lol