COVINGTON — Sharon Quail went through what she called a living hell each day in her hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, escorting her daughter through a gantlet of protesters to Holy Cross Primary School.

        Now the Irish-Catholic housewife is touring the United States, including a stop at Jack Quinn's Irish Ale House & Pub in Covington on Monday to explain to Americans what is happening in the daily battles between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.

        Her visit here, just weeks before another Belfast native, Sinn Fein Party President Gerry Adams, speaks at Jack Quinn's, is sponsored by the Irish Northern Aid Committee of Cincinnati.

        Ms. Quail, who most recently spoke in Cleveland, uses photos to punctuate her talk, showing some of the abuses she and her daughter were exposed to in the daily walk to school through the Glynbryn Estate area along Upper Ardoyne Road in Belfast.

        News reports over the past few months describe bottles, bricks and rocks being thrown at the Holy Cross students and their parents, as well as balloons filled with urine and feces.

        The attacks stem from conflict between Catholics and Protestants that has raged for centuries in Northern Ireland. Since 1966, more than 3,600 people have been killed in the fighting.

        Ms. Quail will speak at 7 p.m. on the second floor of Jack Quinn's, 112 E. Fourth St.

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