If the Good Friday Agreement was the start of a journey, what's the direction of travel 25 years later? BBC News NI's SaraGirvin takes a journey between west and east Belfast on a Translink_NI Gilder to find out. Read more:
If the Good Friday Agreement was the start of a journey, what's the direction of travel 25 years later?Our commuters on the specially named GFA 25 service have been specially selected.The Glider has been travelling between the largely nationalist areas of the west to the largely unionist areas of the east every day since 2018.
"For my generation to never have had to experience any shootings, any bombings, any atrocities, that were outcomes from The Troubles - we're very lucky.""I think the Good Friday Agreement diminished the us versus them mentality that I think our parents' generations would have had. "We can go into town, we can do what we want. There's festivals on, there's new cinemas opening - there's everything and there's no fear about it. You can just go in, enjoy yourself and there's no worrying about who you're going to meet.During the Troubles, there was no bus that connected east and west Belfast
"The Good Friday Agreement anniversary, does it mean much to me? Not really, it doesn't. I know that I'm living in a generation of peace."It's alien for me looking at some of those photographs. It's all free moving for me now."Joseph Jones, from west Belfast, said: "I've actually never travelled on the Glider from west to east so it's bit different, but I have obviously been to east Belfast.
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