may 2007 the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became 1st minister and deputy 1st minister. but what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is politician and all tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge measure surgery ration in very large particularly the working her 3. kids going to school in different schools country scoring off orders from school it would be required just not makes . a consequence of the moves in the segregation divisions were there before the war and the most kind of trade interaction and the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more straightly gratian after the. the peace process when there was truly conflict. segregation is a fact of life and of life and over 35 years of america people aren't going to get over that very very quickly or very easily. the 1st of the so-called peace lines began as the length of the bomb w