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Image of Billy Giles'Please let our next generation live normal lives. Tell them of our mistakes and admit to them our regrets.' - Billy Giles, former UVF member

Politicians in Northern Ireland reached an historic political agreement in 1998, but it will take generations for the spirit and letter of that agreement to be accepted by everyone. Each voice below reflects an individual struggle with change.

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Roy Garland is a newspaper columnist for the nationalist Irish News and a member of the Ulster Unionist Party.
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Tom Roberts, a former UVF prisoner, is Project Co-ordinator of EPIC Ex-Prisoners Interpretative Centre an organisation that helps loyalist prisoners resettle in the community.
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Joe Doherty, a former IRA prisoner, works as a senior youth and community worker in the republican New Lodge district of north Belfast.
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Billy Giles joined the UVF in 1975 and murdered a Catholic workmate in 1982. He committed suicide in 1998 shortly after he contributed this interview to Peter Taylor's BBC television series 'Loyalists'.
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Martin McKevitt is a former official IRA activist who works for An Eochair, (The Key) an ex-prisoners' support group for official republican prisoners.
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Eileen Weir is Culture Co-ordinator at the Shankill Women's Centre in Belfast.
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Catholic women from the republican Ardoyne area of north Belfast.
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Catholic schoolgirls from north Belfast.
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Protestant schoolboys from north Belfast.
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Michael Heaney, the father of two Co. Tyrone sisters killed in a car crash in July 2002.
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Dr. Hazlett Lynch is Project Co-ordinator of the West Tyrone Voice, a group which represents the families of security force members killed by loyalist and republican paramilitaries.
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Brendan McAllister is Director of Mediation Northern Ireland based in Belfast.

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