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20/11/2001
Holy Cross parents decline school bus option
Only four children at the north Belfast school where loyalists have been protesting for 11 weeks took up the local education authority’s offer of transport on Tuesday morning.
The Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB) made two buses available for the Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School pupils to travel up the Ardoyne road past the protest on Tuesday, November 20.
However only four children took up the option with many parents reacting angrily to the move, saying they hadn’t been informed of the decision to supply buses. Other parents said they would still be taking their children up the Ardoyne Road past the protest as a matter of principle.
A spokesperson for the BELB said the use of buses means that the children don’t have to wait in the winter cold for the daily security force escort to school.
BELB also said although they will continue to monitor the situation in north Belfast from day to day in conjunction with the police and both communities they intend to supply two buses to ferry the pupils along the Ardoyne Road from 8.40 until 9.20am in the mornings all this week.
A private meeting took place later on Tuesday afternoon between the school governors of Holy Cross and the first and deputy first ministers David Trimble and Mark Durkan.
Meanwhile, a 31-year-old man has said he is so frustrated by events at the school that he intends to continue refusing food until a resolution to the Holy Cross dispute is found. The father of two children said he stopped eating at midnight last Wednesday. (AMcE)
The Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB) made two buses available for the Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School pupils to travel up the Ardoyne road past the protest on Tuesday, November 20.
However only four children took up the option with many parents reacting angrily to the move, saying they hadn’t been informed of the decision to supply buses. Other parents said they would still be taking their children up the Ardoyne Road past the protest as a matter of principle.
A spokesperson for the BELB said the use of buses means that the children don’t have to wait in the winter cold for the daily security force escort to school.
BELB also said although they will continue to monitor the situation in north Belfast from day to day in conjunction with the police and both communities they intend to supply two buses to ferry the pupils along the Ardoyne Road from 8.40 until 9.20am in the mornings all this week.
A private meeting took place later on Tuesday afternoon between the school governors of Holy Cross and the first and deputy first ministers David Trimble and Mark Durkan.
Meanwhile, a 31-year-old man has said he is so frustrated by events at the school that he intends to continue refusing food until a resolution to the Holy Cross dispute is found. The father of two children said he stopped eating at midnight last Wednesday. (AMcE)
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