Loyalists claim their children suffer also

Dozens of Catholic families have made their way safely down the Ardoyne road to the Holy Cross Primary School this morning.

A massive security operation was mounted to prevent a repeat of yesterday’s blast bomb attack, which injured four RUC officers and narrowly missed school children.

Loyalist residents clashed dustbin lids and blew whistles and horns as the families made their way through the Protestant housing estate.

Loyalist protestors have complained that the focus was solely on the Ardoyne road, while Protestant children were apparently suffering the same ordeal in other parts of the city this morning.

According to Billy Hutchinson of the PUP, loyalist voices are not being properly heard.

One Protestant mother on the Ardoyne this morning said the situation was two-sided and in retaliation for similar treatment of Protestants in the Ardoyne area.

Meanwhile, the RUC has informed three Catholic parents that they are the targets of death threats from the so-called Red Hand Defenders