Holy Cross

PASSIONIST Fr John Craven was remembered as a man of action who stood with the people, whether on the streets of north Belfast or in tough South African townships.

THE mother of a schoolgirl who ran the gauntlet of loyalist protestors during the Holy Cross dispute has spoke of her pride that her daughter has graduated with a teaching degree.

A NORTH Belfast woman who was forced to have her elderly mother's funeral in a church car park due to a security alert has told of how she has been left "devastated" by the scene.

OH, the places I’ve been… I didn’t read Dr Seuss as a child.

A PRIEST at the centre of Holy Cross school dispute has spoken of its life-changing impact 20 years on - and thanked parents for "placing their trust" in him.

ONE does not have to be a close observer of matters ecclesiastical and theological to appreciate that the archives are not exactly bulging with examples of personal correspondence from a Pope to an Ulster Presbyterian clergyman.

OVER the years I have been lucky enough to work in a mixed workforce with people I liked and respected, even if we didn’t always agree politically.

Of the many residents living in long established local communities across Belfast, few have retained as fierce a sense of loyalty, cohesion and identity as the people who call Ardoyne their home.

THE Holy Cross dispute which saw Catholic schoolgirls face loyalist protests as they walked through an area of north Belfast is the subject of a new RTÉ documentary next week.

THE family and a few close friends gathered at the weekend for the funeral of Patrycja Wyrebek, the "sweet girl" found dead in her Newry home.