Northern Ireland: Deal To Demolish 'Peace' Walls

[super jumbe]

An ambitious plan to demolish Northern Ireland's so-called "peace" walls within a decade is to be announced by Downing Street later.



The economic deal comes just three days before the country hosts the G8 summit of world leaders.

Erected temporarily to keep communities apart, the barriers have become a permanent blot on the landscape but those living in their shadow fear it is too soon to pull them down.

One man, walking his dog along the interface in west Belfast, said: "We need to deal with the mental barriers here before we can think about removing the physical ones."

In a peace-line coffee shop nearby, an older man added: "The people, rather than the politicians or the paramilitaries, will decide when it's the right time to remove walls."

According to the Belfast Interface Projects , there are 99 dividing walls in this city alone. Some of them are 18ft high. They attract tourists from all over the world.

Tour guide Brian Neeson explained: "The walls are part of our history and part of our culture. People want to see them and to see the city's famous murals too."

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[super jumbe]

Lets demolish them down first then call them the peace walls, if it was built because of religion between the loyalis* and nationalis* then we need to build a wall hear in ondon!!!!!!

[darrenhyland]

Hey I know a few guys from the south that will 'take care' of the walls for free.............got a few kilos of cemtex lying round which were destined for Maggie but old age caught up first

[Meat-Head]

Not you sj, but some cock had got that wrong, demolish them?
, they attract tourists from around the world

on that score open sections not remove

berlin wall does that get nany tourists nowerdays?