What is life really like for the majority of people in N Ireland? Shopping to be done. children to get to school, examinations to be taken, businesses to be run, taxes to be paid, wages to be collected and spent; the doctor, the hospital, the rent, the mortgage and rates, visiting friends and relatives, all the thousand-and-one little things that make up the texture of daily life.
What difference does the terrorist shooting, the bomb in the car. the burnt-out building and the ubiquitous soldier with a loaded rifle make?
John Tidmarsh has been visiting Northern Ireland to talk to the people who will wake up tomorrow to another Friday. Producer JOHN TURTLE