21, Newcastle, Co Down

`I wouldn't say at this stage that the peace process has brought the communities any closer. We're not one, it can never be like that, because of the way you grow up, some people are brought up in a more extreme way than others. But everyone is still thinking - well is she a Protestant or is she a Catholic or does she think that she is British or Irish?

"I lived out at Jordanstown for the first year that I moved to Belfast to stay away from any problems even though it was the first year of the peace. But now I've moved into the centre and wouldn't really think twice about my safety as such. I live with a girl from Donegal who is petrified of Belfast. I can't get over it. She says to me, `How do you people live here?' But she's living in the same place as me.

"I'm so sick of looking at the politicians on television. Sick of, not just loyalists or unionists, well I'm sick of looking at Ian Paisley obviously. But I'm also sick of looking at Gerry Adams, and sometimes John Hume as well. I sometimes wonder are they listening to the people or are they just so stuck in the mud that they are saying this is what I want, or what the party wants instead of what the people want?"