{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6a9ace43d024784c997fef25?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Holy Cross: Clerics Fr Troy and Rev Hamilton on the protest and resolving it ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1788531890567-57862dca-c385-47de-a6fa-584324dff1eb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>When many people hear the words ‘Holy Cross’ - short for Holy Cross Girls Primary School – the words take them back to a dark time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Holy Cross is a Catholic School in a loyalist area, Upper Ardoyne or Glenbryn.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In 2001, community tensions boiled over and led to loyalist residents protesting nationalist parents from Ardoyne taking their kids to schools through their part of the area.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>That protest became notorious for its viciousness.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Two clerics, one Catholic, one Protestant became synonymous with the events of Holy Cross and attempts to resolve them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They were Fr Aidan Troy and the Rev Norman Hamilton.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fr Troy joined Ciarán Dunbar in the BelTel studio with the Rev Hamilton down the line.&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}