CLAIRE AIKEN: managing director of Aiken PR
"I had my twin boys 15 years ago. What I remember from that year is obviously their birth, the Good Friday agreement and then the Omagh bomb.
“Fifteen years feels like a lifetime away. We grew up in a different place to the one my children live in now. They can walk down the street in their Gaelic gear or their rugby kit, something that wouldn’t have been thinkable when I was growing up even in middle-class Belfast.
“If they see a police officer they'll say hello. There isn't the same fear. They have freedom of travel and freedom of thought. That’s what the agreement gave us. When I think of that image of John Hume, David Trimble and Bono with their hands in the air I think of the great vision that our politicians had then even though it was a rocky road ahead. I think we've stagnated in the meantime.
“We’ve had 15 years of relative peace but we are still very inward-looking. I’d like it if we became more European in our outlook and celebrated our private sector more. Sometimes in the North it’s all about what the government can give us instead of what we can do for ourselves. I'd like to see that mindset change. “