Residents celebrate removal of north Belfast peace wall
Taking down wall on Crumlin Road ‘powerful, symbolic’, says Martin McGuinness
Local residents Jeanie Copeland and Deirdre Hughes in front of railings and landscaped greenery which has replaced a peace wall on Crumlin Road, Belfast. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire
With hope and some trepidation, people on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast celebrated the “symbolic” removal of 270 metres of one of Belfast’s many peace walls yesterday .
During and even since the Troubles, as local community activist Rab McCallum said, violence was “endemic” in this part of north Belfast between the nationalist Ardoyne and the loyalist Twaddell, Woodvale and Shankill areas.