0:00:05 > 0:00:09# Cead mile failte romhat
0:00:09 > 0:00:14# A Iosa, a Iosa
0:00:14 > 0:00:19# Cead mile failte romhat
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# A Iosa
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0:00:27 > 0:00:31# A Shlanaitheoir... #
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Years ago, like, once darkness fell, you'd have been in, you know,
0:00:36 > 0:00:40you wouldn't have went out of the district, you know?
0:00:40 > 0:00:42It's a totally different world for the kids growing up now.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45# Cead mile failte romhat
0:00:45 > 0:00:49# A Shlanaitheoir... #
0:00:49 > 0:00:54They're the first to come in to this generation of no troubles.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58I would like to become a professional boxer, obviously,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00but it's not always going to happen.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03It's not reality like, but hopefully I do, like.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08My dream is to be a pop star.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09I sing everyday of my life.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Just the way of the border into all the areas,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17you know, you're really hemmed in here.
0:01:18 > 0:01:24There's at least one Protestant area on every corner inside of Ardoyne.
0:01:24 > 0:01:29Ardoyne is right in the middle, surrounded by all Protestant areas.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Loads of people think it's really bad because of the rioting and all,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37it's not really like that.
0:01:40 > 0:01:45I do like here. I wouldn't want to move anywhere else.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52Even though it's a shithole like, but it's our shithole! You know what I mean?
0:02:18 > 0:02:24- Conor?- Yeah?- Up. Sleep all right? - Mm-hm.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27- OK?- Aye.- That's all he does.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Boxing is a hard thing to get into.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39It'd take you a long time before you would get any kind of money out.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Connor is the youngest of six.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56He's the baby of this family, you know?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01My family, like, give me support all through the boxing.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03That's all I really need, like.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10We thought it wouldn't last two weeks, to be honest!
0:03:12 > 0:03:13At the start,
0:03:13 > 0:03:18he was more like Billy Elliot dancing around the ring, you know?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20You've to give a lot of time up.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24You're not allowed to have a good time with your mates sometimes.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26But it will be good at the end
0:03:26 > 0:03:30if you could be a professional boxer like. It could happen.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33I feel for him, you know.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Like the pressure of his boxing,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39and the pressure of his friends and school,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41feel like he's cramming an awful lot in.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Do you not think the better kids are under more pressure, you know,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49that gets put on them?
0:03:54 > 0:03:58- There's not a sinner about. - HE LAUGHS
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- Hurry up!- Mum!- Bethany!
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- What?!- Come on, love!
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Do you want your pee! - Ah, you think you're so funny!
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Oh, go on.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I fight with my brother and sister.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29- Yeah, you come down taken off with my phone.- Yes, all right.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34- You mean nelly. Big fat retard. - Bethany is huffy.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Just in the mornings.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Some of them think I'm cheeky and some think I'm well-behaved.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44You can't talk to them for 45 minutes
0:04:44 > 0:04:46from when they get up out of bed.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51It's a known fact, apparently.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Cos I think you have to be cheeky when you need to be cheeky.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58If people be cheeky to you then you need to be cheeky back.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Bethany is happy all the time, most of the time.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Everybody thinks she's lovely.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Have to be in the school for ten to nine,
0:05:05 > 0:05:09and if you're not in by ten to nine, then you get shouted at.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12It's not safe to walk up to school.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18Cos our school is in a Protestant area.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22And we're Catholics and they're Protestant and, like,
0:05:22 > 0:05:29they might hit us or one of our ones might hit them ones and then...
0:05:29 > 0:05:33You can't walk through Glenburn, cause it's a Protestant area.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Cos they would see their uniforms and know where they were from.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38It's just weird.
0:05:43 > 0:05:48- What's this for?- Bethany!- What?! - Come on, now!
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Let's go out this way.
0:05:50 > 0:05:56'It's a hard world. We're not loyal.'
0:05:57 > 0:06:01We are from here in Ardoyne which is the most
0:06:01 > 0:06:08sectarianism place in, like, the world.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- Why didn't you just go straight?- Huh?
0:06:11 > 0:06:15- Don't drive around here, you're not allowed.- Why?- Cos you're not.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Stop here, Daddy.
0:06:17 > 0:06:23- He doesn't listen! See you later.- See you later.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26See you later. Happy child, isn't she?!
0:06:26 > 0:06:28HE LAUGHS
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Serious.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36Yes, I know about the tensions and about the parades and all,
0:06:36 > 0:06:38but that's all, that's part
0:06:38 > 0:06:42and parcel of all the things that need to be sorted out after
0:06:42 > 0:06:46the IRA went away, went to sleep, if you know what I mean.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54If you're walking through a part that know that you're Catholic,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57they'd know you're a Catholic straight away,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59and the same that we would do if they came into our area.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- You're not mature, you header! - I'm more mature than you are!
0:07:07 > 0:07:12I'm mature-er than you! But he's my hairdresser.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16He helps me get the gel on, gets it all combed over.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Makes it sit nice and lovely.
0:07:20 > 0:07:25I give him five fags a day for doing my hair. What's happening?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27What about you?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38Everyone loves me. I don't know why, but.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Anything I say, it's funny. Totally, like, so.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Yeah, he's one of the funniest people I know in my life.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50He's always cheering you up. But he's not right.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- He's not a bad lad. - That's right, big kid.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10There's people out there, haven't got no mates, just sit in the house.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I go out and all of these here look after me.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21It's kind of hard for Pee Wee to stick up for himself,
0:08:21 > 0:08:22cos he's just a kid.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:08:26 > 0:08:29I said help!
0:08:29 > 0:08:32I pulled a wheelie bin the full Saturday and carried the thing up!
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Look at that dump!
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Someone needs to stay here and mind the wood.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41My best mates, every last one of them,
0:08:41 > 0:08:45I haven't got no best mate, but they're all my mates.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48- You better not split and leave me, Mickey, son.- What?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50You better not split and leave me.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Did you see the dud we got in yesterday?- What?- It's a dud.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08That's a dud, yeah?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Good, isn't it?- It looks good, doesn't it?- Aye.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15It looks like a dud.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18DOGS BARK
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Up here's North Belfast.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28Coming in from the city centre, this is the Crumlin Road.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Then this is where we are right here, Ardoyne.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34And this is just all Catholic area right here.
0:09:34 > 0:09:41Ardoyne is right in the middle. Surrounded by all Protestant areas.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45And we're just right there. Them block of streets there.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50All my mates are here. I don't even know anyone outside of it, really.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52You know, I've no family anywhere else.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01That's Ardoyne now, that's a good shot there for you.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02That mural, there.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Years ago, like, you know, once darkness fell...
0:10:08 > 0:10:10HE HONKS THE HORN
0:10:11 > 0:10:15Once darkness fell, you know, you'd have been in,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18you wouldn't have went out of the district.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27That's a memorial there to people have lost their lives,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29just from the Ardoyne. On the end there.
0:10:33 > 0:10:40We were growing up to know that Protestants are bad.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43If you look at it, it's, they're just the same people.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47They do their... They live their life the same way,
0:10:47 > 0:10:49they don't do anything different.
0:11:16 > 0:11:21The IRA run this area for 35, 40 years.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24You were engulfed in all that. I'd seen people shot dead,
0:11:24 > 0:11:28shot dead in their houses by the paramilitaries.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33Soldiers shooting people dead. The IRA shooting soldiers dead.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36You know. And I've seen all that.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37I mean, that was part of my life.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Know what I might do when I'm older?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46I'm going to sit in the house all day, all right,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49go out in my wee Nike Air Max. Get a cap!
0:11:49 > 0:11:53- Go to Tesco and get your vodka. - All my drink and all.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- All the cheap drink.- I know someone who's on the brew and here,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- she's living a great life! - Who?- £60 a week.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04That gets your food, pay for your bills, pay for your rent.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Gas, electric. - Have you ever heard of boyfriends?!
0:12:07 > 0:12:11My life's going to be better than that.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15- It's because your mummies and all pay.- Shut up!
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- LAUGHTER - When you all turned around and looked at me!
0:12:19 > 0:12:24Cos you're the one that's saying you can live on £60 a week!
0:12:24 > 0:12:29- Not even a fortnight! Maybe!- No.
0:12:30 > 0:12:37- I want to be a midwife.- What's that? - You deliver babies.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42- I couldn't do that, I'd just be sick.- I know.- Push! Push!
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Get this thing out of me!
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Ah! Jesus!
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Hit him.
0:12:55 > 0:13:03- It's Daniel, my nephew. My wee nephew. It is.- He's my uncle.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08He takes care of me a lot. I'm actually serious, he really does.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14If Mummy and Daddy was going out and he was really enjoying himself
0:13:14 > 0:13:18with his mates, he would just leave them and come with me and meet me.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20That one.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- That one there, he got. - Why do like that one?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Cos, like, it's colourful.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33I don't like if he gets ever hit, if it was allowed,
0:13:33 > 0:13:37I'd be jumping and pushing the head of the other guy.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39What can you play?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Nothing. Just I have to do it on the D string.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Is this the first time he's gone boxing?
0:13:53 > 0:13:55He went before, but he was a bit too young,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57so he's just starting back today.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59He's far better than me. I know that.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04- Get in there.- Right, see you later.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Eannas is the coach now.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27He'd really like tell me when all the fights and all are coming up.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32- Or when I have to start training more hard or more intense.- Accuracy.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35You have to pump it out. You've got to work. You're nearly there.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36This last ten, as hard as you can.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41Give me ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
0:14:41 > 0:14:44five, four, three, two, one.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Keep going, that's it. Keep going. You're nearly there.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12He comes down to the house and he sneaks in and he steals the fags.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16Nanny never has any, so we have to run down and grab the fags off him.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19And by that time, he's already got the fag out of it.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27He's never in. When he gets up, he'll be away.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36How often would you stay at your granny's then?
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Just whenever Mummy's away. But he stays every weekend.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Every Saturday night, and he goes down to his Aunty Mary's and all.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Where are you for the night now?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- Out with my mates.- Who with? Where? - Oldpark.
0:16:00 > 0:16:05- Oldpark. Aye.- What are you going to do? Nothing?- Walk about.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08That's kind of boring.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12Well, I'd rather go out there than you sitting in the house.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33When is your daddy back?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36He was supposed to be back today, but he's not coming back until tomorrow.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44How often do you get to see him?
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Like every couple of months, or every couple of weeks. Depends.
0:16:53 > 0:16:59- Where are you going?- What?! - Where you going?
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Wipe that thing.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12With schoolwork, I'm not the best,
0:17:12 > 0:17:14that's why I'm trying to focus on the boxing.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21Cos I'm not really that good at anything else.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24You'd like him to stay and get work here,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26but I don't think it's here, like.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29If he has to go somewhere else, he has to go. You know.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Well he's doing all right. No complaints.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- I want a can of Coke. - A can of Coke, Thomas.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- And one of them tenners you steal out of the till! - THEY LAUGH
0:17:55 > 0:17:59That's about seven cars I seen going round there.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Raiding the house, I bet ye. There must be a raid.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- It has to be.- What?- A raid.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14It's them policing us. It's a culture of them and us.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17This is a police ghetto.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Oh, there'll always be trouble here. Always.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I think marching season, you see, it starts to get them going.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55I just, like, I like peace and quiet all the time, all right,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58but sure, most of the time you do get it here now.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00It's not as bad as it used to be.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12I don't know anything about the Troubles, so, well,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17I know wee bits and pieces, but not the whole ramifications of it.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26- Do you know about the Troubles? - No. Not really.
0:19:29 > 0:19:36I ended up in Magilligan Prison for three years. So...
0:19:38 > 0:19:43Protestants and Catholics fight and throw stones and stuff at each other
0:19:43 > 0:19:47and march up and down the roads. And that's all I know.
0:19:47 > 0:19:54I was arrested in the house for guns, ammunition and Semtex.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57But I got charged with withholding information.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03Because I hadn't rang the police and said, there's
0:20:03 > 0:20:07guns in my house, come and get them, blah blah blah,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10because I was under threat, you know what I mean?
0:20:10 > 0:20:14And the football teams as well. And that's it.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Celtic and Rangers or something.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22- So it doesn't matter to you, any of that stuff?- No, not really.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27Cos my mummy is a Protestant, my daddy is a Catholic,
0:20:27 > 0:20:28so I don't really know.
0:20:33 > 0:20:39Anne's from the Shankill, I'm from Ardoyne. It's a mixed relationship.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Bethany, she's got her own life.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54She'll grow up, she'll get married, have her own kids.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57And that will be it, you know what I mean? It'll be move on from that.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01And then it's up to her whatever way she wants to bring her kids up.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03I'm not her daddy, I'm her step daddy, like,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06but she knows I love her.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14- Hurry up, please. A pound change. - No.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Yes. Just give me one pound.- No.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Please. Please, please, please. Thanks.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I think they've got life easy.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26They've got money, every time they ask for it, they get it.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30They go and do whatever they want to do and, well, within reason.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45- Who do you think is going to win? Who's going to win the fight?- Conor!
0:22:45 > 0:22:47- I've already betted me odds. - Have you?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- What price is he knocking down in the first?- 2-1.- 2-1?!
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- 2-1! - CHEERING
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Hello, love.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Over at Mickey's. OK.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20I'm getting a video, right now, so it's a bad time.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Can you leave a message after the tone. Beep. Right!
0:23:23 > 0:23:27- Right, right, right, bye, bye, bye! - Who's that, your mom?- My ma.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41That's what we do. I just annoy Pee Wee. That's what I love doing.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49- Why is he your mate? - He's a legend. Sound.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55Since Pee Wee is small, Pee Wee would have to depend on us
0:23:55 > 0:23:58to back him up, but he would stand up for himself, but for bigger
0:23:58 > 0:24:01people, we would have to step in and make sure no-one would hurt him.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Because he's my wee child.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22- Who is it?- The wee one in the green kit. The wee small one.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25- That's who you're fighting. - With no kit on?- No kit on.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Looks all right there for us. No height difference.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48You'll be shaving soon!
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Let him see you're up for it. Into his face, let him know you're there.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Don't just turn up and be there.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Let him see that you are here for it
0:25:00 > 0:25:02and you're going to take it, OK?
0:25:06 > 0:25:09CHEERING
0:25:09 > 0:25:11SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
0:25:11 > 0:25:14That's it!
0:25:30 > 0:25:35SHOUTING AND CHEERING
0:25:42 > 0:25:43BELL RINGS
0:25:43 > 0:25:48CHEERING
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Look at my hands! All burnt. - I think Conor must have won!
0:25:59 > 0:26:02That's our champ now, isn't it?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04By unanimous decision,
0:26:04 > 0:26:07the judge says the winner is Lavery in the red corner.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09CHEERING
0:26:10 > 0:26:15No way. That wasn't on. Sit down!
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Cheat! CHEAT!
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I wanted it to be Conor who won.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23That's cat, that. Absolutely cat.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I don't believe it.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32That's just the home town this season.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39You did your best anyway. We can never ask for any more than that.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:27:09 > 0:27:12SINGING AND CHEERING
0:27:25 > 0:27:28FIREWORKS WHISTLE AND CRACKLE
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Aye.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43They're not a bad lot now, they're not.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45A hell of a lot of decent kids about.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46A lot of them.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06THEY CHANT PEE WEE'S NAME
0:28:06 > 0:28:08THEY LAUGH
0:28:10 > 0:28:12HE WHISTLES
0:28:32 > 0:28:35# Everybody's gotta live
0:28:36 > 0:28:39# And everybody's gonna die
0:28:41 > 0:28:44# Everybody's gotta live
0:28:46 > 0:28:49# I think you know the reason why
0:28:51 > 0:28:55# Some time the goin' gets so good
0:28:55 > 0:28:57# And then it gets pretty rough... #