Fibula,I don't know that taking the children in the back way is safer--just makes them safer to ambush.
You don't think you are being a bit judgmental and sanctimonious about these parent's dreadful lack of reasonable choices here, do you?
You are coming off sounding like a bit of an apologist for the loyalist terrorists there. I haven't read anywhere in the Irish or British press anyone who has supported this so-called protest.