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	Joe said with a great sigh: "As for me, we are all the same, Protestants and Catholics. There's no difference. But the youngsters worry me. They don't mingle. If you listen to a Protestant youth, he would honestly believe that Catholics are equipped with three legs!" Joe continued: "They work well together at the job centre. But they are so vulnerable. One day a young lad may be working fine at a job we arranged for him, the next day he's out in the street again. His loyalist mates have persuaded him to quit the job. It's no good. When they can't hope much for the future, they are tempted by the violence. They get some identity by being hooligans." Crumlin Road constitutes a demarcation line between the Protestant Shankhill and the Catholic Ardoyne. Crumlin Road Opportunities (CRO) is a job centre, where unemployed young Protestants and Catholics get job training and education. West Belfast is heavily stigmatised by unemployment. The deep despair of unemployment gives nourishment to extreme ideologies. The people who work at the CRO have a mission to reconcile the different groups. May God grant them success in their work.
	First published: Sunday 27th October, 1996. Send a to the author! You may also use this form