Community groups in the town have welcomed the removal of the peace wall.

At a time when the world is talking about erecting new walls, Northern Ireland is pondering ... but it didn't do so much for the poorer areas.” He said Belfast has rebranded itself as a city of peace ...

Young people living on opposite sides of Belfast's longest peace wall have been sharing their experiences as part of a project looking at the impact of the walls. Spingboard's Wall2Wall project ...

The photographs were taken on either side of Belfast’s peace walls, which were first built as a permanent dividing line between the city’s Protestant and Catholic communities over 50 years ago. Devoid ...

The event was held at so-called "peace gates" along one ... they saw the "human peace wall". Ms Tandya said the Good Friday Agreement was a "really important part of Belfast's history".

Everyone I'd talked to about what to expect had spoken about the peace lines - physical walls keeping two communities apart. "There is nothing like it," a colleague who grew up in Belfast had told me.

Belfast young people share experiences of life on either side of city's longest peace wall Justice Minister Naomi Long said: “Removing these physical barriers makes a positive contribution to building ...

There are still over 20 miles of peace walls - or peace lines - across Northern Ireland, the majority across Belfast. They divide predominantly unionist and nationalist areas and some date back to ...