Holy Cross is a Northern Irish drama television film, directed by Mark Brozel and written by Terry Cafolla, and starring Zara Turner and Bronagh Gallagher. It premiered on RTÉ One on 8 November 2003, before receiving its broadcast on BBC One on 10 November 2003.The film is based on the events of the Holy Cross dispute of 2001, which affected the families and children who attended the Holy Cross Primary School, a Catholic school for girls, in the Ardoyne, Belfast area. The school, situated in a predominantly Protestant Loyalist area, led to an eruption of sectarian attacks against the pupils of Holy Cross, for which Loyalists targeted as a means of retaliation, claiming that it was a result of Catholics vandalising their homes and denying them access to local facilities.