After Holy Cross, no child should ever have to live or learn in fear - The Irish News view

IT is a compelling, if depressing, image.Anne Tanney puts her arms around a terrified school pupil, doing her best to allay their concerns about being attacked if they leave the house.But the year is not 2001, when she was principal of Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School and children faced abuse and potential serious injury from missiles as they attempted to walk to class.It is 2026, in the midst of June’s racist rioting, and she is instead comforting a child from a migrant family worried about being targeted because of the colour of their skin.As she rightly asks, surely the tragedy of Holy Cross, which made headlines around the world, taught us that all children have a basic right to live and learn free from fear?It would seem not, and the intolerance witnessed on the streets of north Belfa