Call to build on school protest breakthrough

All sides involved in trying to resolve the Holy Cross school dispute owe it to the children to build on the breakthrough that has been made, Stormont Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan said tonight.

The SDLP leader told pupils, parents and staff at St Roses High School’s annual prize giving in Belfast, that the efforts by Northern Ireland’s power sharing government to resolve the dispute in Ardoyne, in the north of the city, proved that ministers were not participating in a ‘‘see nothing, do nothing executive.