A legal challenge against how police handled the loyalist protest which targeted Catholic schoolgirls at Holy Cross Girls' School in north Belfast could end up in the European Courts, it was revealed today.

The well-known Belfast-based priest Fr Aidan Troy is to move to Paris to take up a new role with a parish of English-speakers in the French capital.

A MOTHER sobbed quietly in a courtroom yesterday as her husband recalled the horror moment when an A&E doctor told him their only son had died from injuries received in a soccer camp accident.

A LIMERICK couple whose only child was killed in a freak soccer accident when a moveable goalpost crashed down on him welcomed proposals to prevent a similar accident.

THE sale of a 130-space car park as a site for decentralised Government offices, in Killarney, is adding to traffic congestion outside schools in the town, it was claimed yesterday.

THE sale of a 130-space car park as a site for decentralised Government offices in Killarney is adding to traffic congestion outside schools in the town, it was claimed yesterday.

Fr Aidan Troy, from the Holy Cross parish in Belfast, has revealed he has received two loyalist death threats in recent weeks.

CHILDREN attending a north Belfast school targeted by loyalists have been forced back into counselling following Monday’s discovery of a pipe bomb on the premises.

A pipe bomb attack on a flashpoint primary school in north Belfast will not signal the start of a new protest campaign by loyalists, it was claimed tonight.

The chairman of the board of governors at the Catholic Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast said he hopes the discovery of a pipe bomb at the school earlier today does not signal the start of a new sectarian campaign.

THE girls of Holy Cross primary in north Belfast enjoyed a peaceful walk on their first day back to school yesterday.

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

A PRIEST at the centre of the Holy Cross dispute spoke of his fears yesterday for the new term as children prepare to return to school at a north Belfast flashpoint.

The chairman of the board of governors at the Holy Cross girls’ primary school in north Belfast has expressed concern ahead of the beginning of the new school term.

Shots were fired in flashpoint north Belfast as sectarian tensions erupted in the area overnight.

A Protestant man has been shot and injured in the Glenbryn Park area of Ardoyne in north Belfast.

Police were today mounting a major security operation at dozens of schools across north Belfast following loyalist threats against teachers and school staff.

The children attending Holy Cross School in the Ardoyne area of Belfast have walked home without incident this evening.

The North’s Education Minister, Martin McGuinness, has said he is confident that the Catholic Holy Cross primary school in Ardoyne, north Belfast, can remain open, despite indications to the contrary.

The Catholic primary school at the eye of the latest violence to engulf North Belfast was closed today to prevent any of its young pupils being injured.

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.

Political leaders in the North are finalising a package to tackle the dispute between Catholics and loyalists in North Belfast.

Loyalists have suspended their protests outside the Holy Cross Catholic school in north Belfast.

Children sitting the second part of their 11-plus exam in the Holy Cross School in North Belfast will again be forced to walk the back road to their school today.

The North’s First and Deputy First Ministers, David Trimble and Mark Durkan will meet with loyalist residents from north Belfast tonight in an effort to resolve the 80-day-old protest outside a Catholic school in Ardoyne.

An end to the Holy Cross School dispute could be in sight, it was claimed tonight.

Crude explosive devices were last night thrown at Catholics' homes in north Belfast.

Children and parents affected by the Holy Cross protest will be taken to school by bus this morning.

One of the parents whose children attend Holy Cross school has gone on hunger strike.

Police were today switching tactics in a determined bid to resolve the 12 week loyalist protest outside a Catholic primary school in north Belfast.

Catholic parents and children today took an alternative route to school after loyalists called off their protest at Holy Cross primary in north Belfast.

Parents of Catholic children caught up in the Holy Cross dispute in north Belfast have appealed for help at Westminster to end the long-running hostilities.

Northern Secretary John Reid has reiterated his opposition to the ongoing loyalist protest outside the Catholic Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast.

Parents of Catholic children caught up in the Holy Cross dispute in north Belfast may take legal action in a bid to end the protest.

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.

Protestant residents tonight offered to end the Holy Cross protests in north Belfast if Catholic children and parents went to school by bus.

There is speculation tonight that the loyalist protest outside the Holy Cross girls’ primary school in Ardoyne, north Belfast, could be called off by next Monday.

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

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

Loyalist protestors threw fireworks at the parents of children attending the Holy Cross girls’ primary school in north Belfast this morning, according to the RUC.

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.

Talks between Protestant residents from Belfast’s Ardoyne and the Northern Secretary John Reid to try to end the Holy Cross standoff have been put back until Tuesday evening.

Loyalists held a silent protest and turned their backs on Catholic parents bringing their children to Holy Cross school in the Ardoyne today.