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Interview with Archbishop Robin Eames and Bishop Patrick Walsh by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 9 September 2001

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Transcript of an interview with Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of the Church of Ireland, and Bishop Patrick Walsh, Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 9 September 2001. Between 3 September and 22 November members of the unionist community protested outside the Holy Cross school, a Catholic primary school for girls in the Ardoyne area, citing community violence in north Belfast as the reason. The crowds which gathered used violence and intimidation in addition to peaceful protest as students and parents entered the school. Eames and Walsh discuss ways of ending the protests. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly current affairs programme on BBC.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 09 September 2001

Name of First Interviewee: Archbishop Robin Eames

Name of Second Interviewee: Bishop Patrick Walsh

Role at time of Interview: Archbishop Robin Eames (Primate of the Church of Ireland), Bishop Patrick Walsh (Bishop of Down and Connor)

Interviewer: David Frost

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost
Time Period covered: 2001

Key Individuals: Archbishop Robin Eames, Bishop Patrick Walsh, John Reid, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

Key Words: Holy Cross School, education, youth, religion, community relations

 

 

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