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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
Residents celebrate removal of north Belfast peace wall

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 p(...)

Minister for Justice David Ford said the survey showed a “hardening of attitudes among residents living in the shadow of peace walls towards their eventual removal”. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Support grows for keeping North’s ‘peace walls’

More people living near Northern Ireland’s so-called peace walls want them to stay than did three years ago, a new study has found. In 2012, some 22(...)

US president Barack Obama is expected to urge Northern Ireland schoolchildren to work for a more shared society, and to call for the eventual removal of Belfast’s peace walls. Photograph: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Obama to press for end to Northern Ireland segregation

US president Barack Obama visits Belfast this morning to press for renewed efforts to end community division in Northern Ireland. Accompanied by Miche(...)