How do you write about Ireland without falling into a puddle of cliches? It’s so green. It is. The Guinness tastes different there. It does. The people are so friendly.
Rosemary Rogers shares her experience of traveling to Ireland with her daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren, and sister in 2017. When I was 12 my mother took me to Ireland, her first trip home since she left 35 years earlier. In keeping with that tradition, I took my daughter, Nell, several times but in 2017 our group
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for alternative accommodation. northern ireland s housing executive believes increasing the availability of housing in mixed areas will help tackle the problems associated with segregation, and says it s working with housing associations to create more shared communities. over the last 17 years, 70 housing estates have been built, entirely with a focus on sharing and shared housing. and so, we have seen significant progress made and significant progress made where communities themselves choose to share. but we re not there yet. and we must not take our eyes off this, it has to continue to be a significant area of focus. but change is gradual. the continuing presence of so called peace walls which physically separate some mainly protestant and catholic areas are a tangible reminder of old divides. and a proliferation of flags put up by residents can be seen as a marking of territory. one of the risks is that union flags will go up as, essentially, -
with segregated schooling for a lot of people, a lot of people still live in divided communities where there are a majority of people from a catholic background in one area, majority of people from a protestant background in other areas, and that continues to permeate society, really, so there still remains a lot of issues that have to be dealt with in northern ireland society, even indeed a number of miles away from here, in some areas you will continue to see peace walls dividing communities, predominantly catholic and predominantly protestant communities, so there is a lot of stuff that needs to be done, but we also continue to have the issue of paramilitarism in northern ireland. it was only a number of days ago that we saw petrol bombs were thrown at police officers in northern ireland in derry, and as well as that, in the north down area, we saw a loyalist feud among drug gangs