The chairman of the board of governors at Holy Cross primary school in Belfast, Father Aidan Troy, has revealed that he has received two threats to his life.
Fr Troy told the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin: "The most recent threat relayed to me by the PSNI told me I would be killed within two days."
He also said the planting of a device earlier this month at the gate of the school in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast had had a "devastating effect" on pupils, with some dropping out of class and others regressing in terms of the therapy they received.
He added: "I do not blame the people of the (the loyalist) Glenbryn area for these messages.
"It takes only one sick mind or a perverted person to create fear, intimidation and a form of terrorism."
The Holy Cross school was catapulted into the international spotlight in 2001 after loyalists staged pickets as the girls and their parents made their way to and from class.
Father Troy was taking part in a discussion on the problems in the sectarian flashpoint area of Ardoyne in North Belfast.
The forum was also informed that a representative from the loyalist Glenbryn, community worker Ms Anne Bill, had pulled out because of allegations of recent targeting of protestant community workers by the IRA.
In a letter read to the forum by its chairman Senator Maurice Hayes, she also revealed that she was involved in the re-housing of members of her community.
Father Troy told forum delegates in Dublin Castle that school authorities were cataloguing threats each day to children on their way to school which they then faxed on to the PSNI.
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