Here's something else to sweep under the carpet. This is news from Sunday. I notice that none of are regular "newsworthy reporters" deemed it so. Maybe this should have a thread of its own but I knew there would be a lot regular discussion experts checking back here.

Horror attack on schoolgirl
12-year-old beaten up yards from her home.

By Jonathan McCambridge
jmccambridge@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

21 March 2005
A Catholic couple was today considering moving house after their 12-year-old daughter was beaten and kicked in a sickening sectarian attack just yards from her front door.

Belfast schoolgirl Megan Brown described how she has been left living in terror after a gang of teenagers jumped her and kicked her in the face while shouting sectarian abuse.

Police have appealed for information following the attack which took place in Old Throne Park off the Whitewell Road at 5pm yesterday.

Megan, a pupil at the Little Flower School in Belfast, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital where she was treated for six hours for facial and back injuries including bruising and swelling.

Her mother Anne-Marie Brown today spoke of her anger following the attack.

"Because Megan was walking a few yards in front of her brothers and sisters and me they thought she was on her own.

"It was definitely a sectarian attack because of what they shouted and afterwards they ran off into the White City.