UPDATE: The security alert at playing fields in east Belfast has ended - almost 24 hours after it began.
The principal of a primary school that was forced to shut due to a security alert has said he is shocked and angered by the disruption to education.
"We're now having to explain to our children that some people, because they don't agree with a particular sport being played across the road from our school, that they can't exercise their right to come to school today," said Lough View's principal Sean Spillane.that the alert had disrupted his pupils' education and stopped people in the area from going to work.
The alert began on Monday evening and police and Army technical officers attended the scene on Church Road, Castlereagh on the outskirts of east Belfast.
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