Parent Donna Whelan said “panic and worry” immediately set in when she received a message from her daughter to say the school was in “lockdown”.
“Everything runs thorugh your mind because you see these threats nowadays, some of them are real,” she said.
“Another girl has messaged her dad saying that someone’s in there with a knife and then I’m panicking because then she stopped messaging me for a bit and I’m thinking what’s going on in there?”
Whelan said her daughter had sent videos of pupils hiding under tables and huddled in a corner on the floor.
She later received a message from the school which confirmed everyone was “safe and well in the building” and staff were following “precautionary procedures”.
She said a police officer had informed parents outside the schools that “two kids were fighting, one from this school, one from another school”.
“We were informed that someone’s come with a gun and now they’ve found the child and it’s a water gun,” she said.
