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Thu 09 Sep 2007Time to tear down these walls of division
With things settling down in Northern Ireland, isn't it time to consider taking down the so-called "peace" walls separating communities instead of erecting more, asks Trina Vargo.
Everyone of a certain age distinctly remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The sight of East and West Germans joining in celebration on the wall, and the chipping away of it over the following weeks, demonstrated to the world - in a way that no other act could - that the cold war was truly over. Can the walls come down in Northern Ireland?
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