President Mary McAleese today paid tribute to dedicated community workers who are helping to bring peace to divided communities in Northern Ireland.

Loyalist protesters stayed away as children at the flashpoint Holy Cross Primary School returned to class today.

A new term begins today at Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast but no repeat of the loyalist blockade is expected there.

A Sinn Fein Assembly member has said police chiefs were trying to set a trap for Ardoyne Catholics by warning that a riot was being planned during the annual Twelfth of July Orange marches.

More TV surveillance may be introduced in a bid to identify rioters in flashpoint north Belfast, it emerged today.a

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, said today that the attack on a Catholic girls school in North Belfast has brought people to the point of despair.

A footpath row between two mothers sparked the new outbreak of sectarian violence which erupted in flashpoint North Belfast, police said today.

A pipe bomb has been found after loyalists called off their protest at the Holy Cross Primary School.

Catholic children were today preparing to go to Holy Cross Primary school in north Belfast without encountering loyalist protesters for the first time in three months.

The death of a Protestant teenager during rioting in north Belfast was a senseless waste of life, Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble said tonight.

Catholic children walked to Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast today amid the biggest security operation mounted since the crisis began.

Loyalists have pledged no let up in their protest campaign against the parents and children of the Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast.

The scenes of loyalist protest at a north Belfast Catholic school have appalled the world, South African peace campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared today.

Loyalist residents in north Belfast today vowed to defuse tensions in their area by ensuring protests against Catholic schoolchildren and their parents pass off peacefully.

Loyalists in north Belfast are considering moves to tone down their picket this week of Catholic schoolchildren and their parents, a source close to the protest claimed tonight.

An 18-year-old soldier remained critically ill in hospital today after a blast bomb attack in north Belfast.

A human rights chief was set to accompany Catholic parents and children on the disputed school walk in north Belfast today as loyalists faced the threat of legal action in a bid to force them to end their protests.

Loyalists today began another week of protests outside the Holy Cross school in north Belfast amid warnings that pupils could be damaged permanently.

Catholic children enduring daily protests at their Belfast school could be permanently damaged, a priest at the centre of the dispute has warned.

Children should be allowed to travel to school free from any harassment in Northern Ireland, Stormont Education Minister Martin McGuinness insisted today.

Children involved in the long-running dispute at Holy Cross Primary School in Northern Ireland will get hurt unless the loyalist protests end, it was claimed today.

The loyalist protest against Catholic schoolchildren and their parents in north Belfast is to be called off for one day as a mark of respect of those killed in the terror attacks in the US.

Loyalists were set to stage new protests in north Belfast today when Catholic children return to school.

Loyalists were tonight preparing to stage new school protests in north Belfast.

The President Mary McAleese has sent a letter of support to the people of the Ardoyne involved in the Holy Cross Primary School standoff.

The RUC has discovered more than 60 petrol bombs stored in the Loyalist Tiger’s Bay area of North Belfast.

Nationalist and loyalist politicians were tonight locked in a desperate bid to resolve the north Belfast school dispute after the protest reached a terrifying new level of violence.

There was no repeat of this morning's violence as the security forces swamped the route taken by parents as they collected their children from the Holy Cross Primary School in north Belfast.

Northern Ireland Assembly members are to debate the Holy Cross Primary School dispute when they return for their first plenary session since the summer break next Monday.

The police and army have stopped Catholic parents from taking their daughters through the safe corridor to the Holy Cross Primary School in the Ardoyne area of Belfast because an explosion has occurred there.

Unionist and nationalist representatives were tonight under pressure to help end the violence which erupted in north Belfast over Catholic children being allowed to go to school.

An attempt was made tonight to broker a deal to end the sectarian violence plaguing north Belfast.