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| Prince Charles to visit NI peace centre Corrymeela | Prince Charles to visit NI peace centre Corrymeela |
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| Prince Charles is to visit Northern Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation centre on the final day of his visit to the island of Ireland. | Prince Charles is to visit Northern Ireland's oldest peace and reconciliation centre on the final day of his visit to the island of Ireland. |
| The Corrymeela Centre, set up to promote Christian peace-building, has its 50th anniversary this year. | The Corrymeela Centre, set up to promote Christian peace-building, has its 50th anniversary this year. |
| Reconciliation has been a key theme of the prince's four-day visit. | Reconciliation has been a key theme of the prince's four-day visit. |
| He shook hands with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and visited the site in County Sligo where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. | He shook hands with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and visited the site in County Sligo where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. |
| 'Deep symbolism' | 'Deep symbolism' |
| Colin Craig of the Corrymeela Centre said it was an appropriate place for the prince to end what will have been an emotional visit. | Colin Craig of the Corrymeela Centre said it was an appropriate place for the prince to end what will have been an emotional visit. |
| "In his own life, when he has suffered bereavement, it acts as a deep symbolism for what what we're trying to work for, in our 50th year that the work is still ongoing," he said. | "In his own life, when he has suffered bereavement, it acts as a deep symbolism for what what we're trying to work for, in our 50th year that the work is still ongoing," he said. |
| "We need to keep the inspiration that Corrymeela can offer in people's lives." | "We need to keep the inspiration that Corrymeela can offer in people's lives." |
| The centre works with about 11,000 people a year at its residential centre in Ballycastle, County Antrim. | The centre works with about 11,000 people a year at its residential centre in Ballycastle, County Antrim. |
| It was founded in 1965 by Ray Davey, the first Presbyterian Dean of Queen's University in Belfast. | |
| Former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Terence O'Neill, opened the centre and at the time recalled "the long drive up to Corrymeela, with Protestant extremists holding their banners up and some of them bashing cars as they went by." | |
| The archive audio featured in a report on BBC Radio Ulster by BBC NI reporter Mervyn Jess. | |
| Some of the centre's work with families and young people over the last few years has been supported by a fund set up by Countess Mountbatten, in memory of her son Nicholas who was also killed in the August 1979 attack at Mullaghmore. | |
| Mr Craig said the centre was "very much in the middle of the crisis" at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. | Mr Craig said the centre was "very much in the middle of the crisis" at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. |
| "As people were being put out of their homes, the Corrymeela bus was one of the few that could cross these so-called peace lines," he said. | "As people were being put out of their homes, the Corrymeela bus was one of the few that could cross these so-called peace lines," he said. |
| "Did we stop it all happening? No, but we stopped it becoming as bad as it could have." | "Did we stop it all happening? No, but we stopped it becoming as bad as it could have." |
| Ahead of their visit to Corrymeela, the Royal couple visited Mount Stewart house and gardens in County Down. | |
| The Prince of Wales is president of the National Trust, and their visit marks the completion of a three-year restoration programme supported by local volunteers. | The Prince of Wales is president of the National Trust, and their visit marks the completion of a three-year restoration programme supported by local volunteers. |