Further to the points made by Sir Ivor Roberts (“Is justice too much to trade for peace?”, 10 May), according to a 2012 study, there are actually 99 walls, barriers and interfaces of various kinds between Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods in North, East and West Belfast – the steel mesh “curtain” erected in the grounds of St Matthew’s Catholic Church in East Belfast last November would make it 100. Most people living near the interfaces either do not want them removed or believe they cannot yet be removed. This is primarily due not to the actual threat of violence but to endemic fear, based on memories of the past, when a vicious conflict was played out in the streets of working-class Belfast. After six months’ intensive research into the int