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A documentary charting an ordinary day in the life of Ardoyne will show the area has left its dark past behind. Film maker Aaron Black followed the lives of three teenagers and found the north Belfast district most closely associated with the Holy Cross dispute and riots over parade flashpoints has turned a corner.
Over five months he filmed teens Bethany, Conor and PeeWee, who declares "it's a sh**hole but it's our sh**hole." Aaron says the area is best described as a village within a city and any preconceptions he had about life in Ardoyne were quickly dispelled.
"I was trying to portray a normal day. Sometimes there are flare ups but most days life is normal," says Aaron. "Most of the kids don't really know about the Troubles. One of the nice things about that age group is the innocence of it all.
"For the likes of PeeWee the most important thing is his life is his mates, that's his world, and the kids look out for him. It's not the dark place people think it is.
"I'd love to go back in a few years' time and see how their lives have progressed." Young boxer Conor admits that all his family and friends are from Ardoyne and he doesn't know anyone outside it. But he's chosen to challenge any sectarian attitudes he encounters.
"We were grown up to know Protestants are bad. If you look at it they are just the same people and they live their life the same way. They don't do anything different," he says.
In echoes of the Holy Cross dispute, when young girls attending a nearby Catholic primary school were blockaded by loyalist protesters for months in 2001, Bethany, 15, says she still has to be driven through nearby Glenbryn to school.
Ardoyne - Our Lives is on BBC1 on April 30 at 10.35pm.
