Political leaders have pledged to bring down the ‘peace walls’ dividing Catholics and Protestants that still scar Belfast, but it is a slow process and some are still fearful of the prospect No one knows exactly how many gates, barriers, fences and other kinds of interface still separate Protestants from Catholics in Northern Ireland’s capital. The Belfast Interface Project listed and photographed 99 in 2012, some 40 per cent of which have gone up since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought a formal end to 30 years of violent strife between the two communities. A few barriers have since been removed or become redundant, such as the fence in Torrens in north Belfast, where an entire Protestant community was forced out as recently as 2004. Visit the community programmes