Coming together at the dividing wall
CGTN Europe • 3m 20s
Sometimes those closest to the violence of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland can be found working hardest for reconciliation.
Robert McClenaghan was once an active member of the Youth IRA, a branch of the Irish Republican Army.
He still lives in the same house his family occupied in the 1960s a few hundred meters from the Cupar Way "Peace Wall" – an ugly structure of metal, bricks and wire that divides the Catholic Clonard area of West Belfast from the Protestant Shankill estates on the other side.
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