The families and survivors affected by the Ormeau Road atrocity of 1992 still live in the terraced streets that surround Sean Graham s bookies.
Every day they pass the scene where, less than one minute after two UDA gunmen entered the small building, five lay dead and seven critically injured.
James Kennedy (15), 18-year-old Peter Magee, Jack Duffin, Willie McManus and Christy Doherty were instantly killed. James Kennedy s mother died of a broken heart less than two years later. Of the seven injured, five have died prematurely directly as a result of the injuries sustained that day.
On the gable side of the bookmaker s is a well-preserved piece of granite remembering the dead. Inscribed in stone are the words of James Kennedy s father when his wife died: Bullets do not only travel distance, but also through time . The smell of cordite has never left the nostrils of those who survived and those who mourn.