School denying sectarian attack
A Catholic teacher at the Protestant Boy's Model school in Belfast's
Ballysillan Road was the target of a sectarian gun attack, An Phoblacht has
learned.
The female teacher was in class during last week when a number of shots
were fired in the staunchly loyalist Ballysillan area of North Belfast. She
was unhurt, but sources say that the windows were broken and strike marks
were left on the wall.
People who contacted An Phoblacht have also told us the incident has been
deliberately kept quiet as the education authorities and the school want to
avoid bad publicity.
When we contacted the principal of the school, Jim Keith, he admitted that
there was an incident last week but denied that it was sectarian. He
claimed that shots were fired from a .177 air rifle in the direction of the
school but contrary to our source he claimed that no glass was broken and
there were no strike marks.
The woman teacher has now moved to a job in the Belfast Education and
Library Board, a move Jim Keith said, was not related to the shooting
incident.
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