Fr Aidan Troy, a priest in north Belfast, received death threats due to his involvement in the Holy Cross school protests. These threats led to the Irish government offering him alternative accommodation in Belfast, away from the Ardoyne area. However, Fr Troy refused to leave, fearing the revelation would frighten the schoolchildren.
Death threats against Fr Aidan Troy over the Holy Cross school protests led the Irish government to offer the Ardoyne-based priest accommodation in Belfast away from north Belfast. The north Belfast school came to international attention from June 2001 when Catholic children were seen nightly on their way to school cowering in the arms of parents from insults and missiles thrown by loyalist protesters.
The bitter protests continued in September that year when hundreds of loyalist protesters tried to stop the children from going to the school, which stands in what is now a largely Protestant part of the city. In January 2002 a street fight between a Catholic and a Protestant outside the school led to significant rioting in Ardoyne and attacks on other Catholic schools in north Belfast, but the issue faded from then on from the public view.However, a Department of Foreign Affairs file from January 2023 published in the State papers now shows that two credible death threats using accepted code words were made against Fr Troy a year later. The warnings against the priest and the school’s board of management were made by a group that called itself the Orange Volunteers, made separately to the(PSNI) came to Fr Troy and told him they had intelligence that his life was in danger from loyalist paramilitaries and “that he was to be shot before Monday”. The police offered full security but advised that he not stay in the Ardoyne. However, the Bray, Co Wicklow-born priest said he did not wish to leave, fearing that the disclosure of the threat against him would scare the schoolchildre
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