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Dissidents a turn-off for Northern Ireland's young
Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:29pm EDT
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BELFAST (Reuters) - Gazza, a skinny 16-year old from the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, can't see the point of joining a group to rid Northern Ireland of British control.
"We have our own organization," says the boy, grabbing his friends by the shoulder. "We are hoods."
During decades of sectarian conflict, Ardoyne was a traditional recruiting ground for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in its guerrilla campaign against British rule.
The predominantly Catholic neighborhood still bears its allegiance in vivid murals, Irish tricolours and commemorative plaques to those killed before a 1998 deal ended a conflict that had killed more than 3,600 people since the late 1960s.
A recent burst of violence by IRA splinter groups, including the killing of a policeman earlier this month by the Continuity IRA, has stirred fears of a new recruitment drive.
But in Ardoyne, even though there is disdain in some quarters for the power-sharing option taken by the IRA's political ally Sinn Fein, teenagers aren't interested.
Young people have grown up with stories of the old days -- when the place was a no-go area for police and soldiers -- but their lives are very much in the present, their role models drawn from the ranks of global celebrity.
"My daughter is 19," said a mother of two, speaking like most people on condition of anonymity. "She was asked the other day who she aspired to be like and she said Beyonce. She has a grand life, a life I wouldn't have minded myself."
Most are too young to remember "The Troubles," the euphemistic moniker for violence between pro-Ireland groups and largely Protestant organizations seeking to keep Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom.
Small-scale violence does flare up in Ardoyne, a so-called "interface" area due to its close proximity to pro-British communities.
Last year, children from as young as eight to youths in their early 20s were regularly rioting; throwing rocks, paint and petrol bombs at the police.
Taunts from Protestant neighbors or a soccer match between Glasgow clubs Celtic, traditionally supported by Catholics, and Rangers, which has a largely Protestant following, were enough to trigger trouble.
"I would call it recreational violence, just something for them to do," said community worker Fernando Murphy. "They are rebelling against authority."
After rioting escalated last year, he set up a "midnight" youth club to get boys and girls off the streets.
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