Republican News · Thursday 13 February 2003

School bus windows broken by mob

A ten-strong loyalist mob made up of members of the UDA's youth wing, the Ulster Young Militants, attacked a school bus carrying pupils from St Malachy's High school close to the Birch Hill Road in Antrim Town on Monday 10 February.

In the attack, carried out at about 3.20pm as pupils were returning home, bottles and stones were hurled at the bus. A number of windows were broken during the attack and one schoolboy was treated at the nearby Antrim Area Hospital for cuts.

Now angry parents are demanding that something is done before the situation gets out of control.

Sinn Féin's Martin McManus, who lives near the school, said that this was a carbon copy of what had happened last year. He added that loyalists had gathered near the Catholic school gates on Tuesday, the day after the bus attack, threatening and taunting the Catholic school children as they made their way home.