Byline: Suzanne Breen
Balenciaga Handbag Replica IT was the first major atrocity I covered as a reporter and the one I remember most.
In the months and years that followed, there were other appalling acts - Greysteel, Loughinisland, the killing of the Quinn children. But, somehow, the first scene of carnage you witness, always remains vivid.
The Shankill Road went to hell and back on that crisp autumn afternoon 10 years ago. Men and women tore at the debris with bare hands. The names of fathers, daughters, brothers and sisters were screamed.
Firefighters, police and ambulancemen were indistinguishable, their uniforms thick with dust, dirt and blood. They used axes and crowbars to reach the dead and injured.
A teenager with her first pay cheque lodged proudly in her handbag lost two fingers. An 11-year-old saw a woman's arm flying through the air. Women stood in small knots at street corners, chain-smoking, their faces pinched with grief. Even the hardest of hard men cried.
There were other emotions, too. A woman said if someone handed her a bomb she would go up the Falls Road and plant it herself. "The more people it kills the better," she declared.
Belfast was a Dimmable LED Down Light K1021 3x3x1W / 3x3x3W very angry city and not just the Shankill. Over in Ardoyne, there was rage that the deaths of Catholics - killed in ones and twos, in their beds, on their way to work, in taxis - had been ignored.
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There is still fury and fear on both sides of the peaceline today but fortunately less bloodshed. Yet no one should pretend we are anywhere near mutual understanding, let alone peace.
Sean Kelly, the bomber who survived, is still very much part of the Ardoyne community. There are those on the Shankill who continue to support the UDA.
We aren't burying our dead as in the dark days of 1993. But listen to ordinary residents in both areas - not the PC sound-bites from certain political and community representatives - and divisions seem as stark as ever.
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