Troubled
Inside the deep legacy of trauma in Northern Ireland
While the actual violence and conflict may have ended, the legacy of the Troubles still lingers on in Northern Ireland; many are still struggling to come to terms with what happened and find a way to move forward.
"The Good Friday Agreement was signed and it was seen as a magical fix-it-all and it really wasn’t," explains activist Amy Rafferty. "Part of the agreement was that these paramilitary groups were going to disappear; 25 years they're still going," says Gareth McCord, who lost his brother during the Troubles. The 800m 'Peace Line' wall still separates communities in Belfast and a new generation of kids throw rocks, bottles and stones across it. "It's obviously a place that had 30 years of ‘low intensity conflict,’ as it's called. But to the individual it’s high intensity. You live with it every day. And then that gets passed on down to their children," says trauma therapist Paul Gallagher. With more recorded suicides since the Good Friday agreement than deaths during the thirty-year conflict, Northern Ireland remains a deeply troubled society.
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