‘I can still visualise it all and see the faces of the children in front of me’- Father Aidan Troy

13 years on Fr Aidan Troy recalls the Holy Cross protests, writes Dan Buckley

It is 13 years since Fr Aidan Troy led a group of Catholic schoolgirls through hateful loyalist protests in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, but the image of hysterical children and their frightened parents running the gauntlet of jeers, bricks, and pipe bombs never leaves him.

“I can still visualise it all and still see the faces of the children in front of me,” he says.