with Anne Nightingale and Adrian Love
'I am a Catholic and was seeing a Protestant girl. My parents didn't like this and told me to end the relationship. When I refused they told me to leave. I have left home and have had to leave school and look for a job. Life was bearable until my girlfriend's parents forbade her to see me again.'
'People have been killed and maimed by terrorism and compared to these people I am lucky. That is the whole basis of my protest. We are not victims of terrorism - we are victims of our own parents.' (Robert, Belfast) The Mailbag phone-line, [number removed], is open every Wednesday, 7.0-10.0 pm