Ms Mary Nolan:

We have cross-Border exchanges and cross-site exchanges, where people all come together and meet in the middle ground. The closing day at the end of the programme under PEACE IV was held in Tyrone. Young people from Lifford Clonleigh Resource Centre came to Tyrone, as did other young people from Belfast, Downpatrick and the surrounding areas, and we all met in the one place. Sometimes, when we go into halls where young people are from different areas, counties and countries, they all sit in their own cliques. When we went in that day, and it was a massive hall, the amazing thing about it was they were all playing football, dodgeball and badminton and eating burgers together. It was lovely to see agents of change right before our eyes. We watched that on that day. These were young people who were afraid of what was across the Border. They were afraid of what was on the other side of the wall, never mind across a border. We saw that they started out saying, "Prods get all the jobs" and "The Taigs learned in jail", which was trans-generational. We knew that was either being fed down the family line or was coming from what they had read on anonymous sites through social media. It was amazing to see them come through the other end of that and watch the peacebuilding take place before our eyes.