Decades of appeasing the UVF and UDA and throwing money at them has made not the slightest difference except to enrich guys like ‘Winkie’ Irvine ...

April 08, 2025 at 11:34am BST Young people from either side of Belfast’s oldest peace wall have come together to share their personal stories in a new report aimed at bridging the divide between ...

But with peace in 1998 — and government investing to subsidize that peace — the 21st century has been one big building boom. On my latest trip, rainy weather led me to a Belfast gem I’d ...

Belfast's "Berlin wall", the mother of all the city's peacelines, exhibits no physical cracks as it stretches for hundreds of yards, keeping apart the Protestant Shankill and the Catholic Falls.

Violence still permeates the city, as the Peace Wall dividing the Falls and Shankill roads demonstrates. The stretch of no-man’s land between the wall and the first houses of Shankill Road was once ...

They’ve stood for longer than the Berlin Wall. Our tour takes us to the Shankill and Falls roads area of western Belfast, which were particularly notorious during The Troubles.

The Shankill was a two-minute walk away, if the gate [in the ‘peace wall’ that still divides the areas] was open. There is no difference. We were all watching Coronation Street at eight o’clock.” ...

To the contrary. The walls have only increased in number and height since the peace agreement in 1998: in the early 90s there were some 18 partition walls; in 2017, there were 59.

Legacy of peace walls There are still over 20 miles of peace walls - or peace lines - across Northern Ireland, the Majority across Belfast.

Peace lines like this are symbolic of how some communities are still split along sectarian lines, 25 years after a peace deal largely ended Northern Ireland's Troubles.