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Beyond Belief: Young Voices in Northern Ireland

Young Voices in Northern Ireland

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, Young Voices in Northern Ireland

Young voices from Northern Ireland discuss how things have changed since the Troubles.

Young  from Northern Ireland talk about their faith and discuss whether or not religious affiliation still determines attitudes towards social and moral issue in the province.

For this special edition of Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea has been to Northern Ireland to talk to a panel of young adults in their 20s about their views on religion and how their society has changed in the 23 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. 

Ernie was born in Belfast and worked in a youth club on the Shankill Road during some of the worst years of the Troubles. He experienced the visceral hatred felt by some Protestants and Catholics towards each other and although religion was not the cause of the Troubles, it played its part; it largely determined how people voted and where they sent their children to school. Ernie acknowledges that things have changed since the Troubles but he wants to know how much? Does religious affiliation still determine attitudes towards social and moral issues in Northern Ireland?

Panel:
Andrew Matthews
Aoibhin McNeill
Chris Clague
Shannon Campbell 

Producer:
Helen Lee

Editor:
Helen Grady

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