Shankill people wary of Belfast Stories project, new councillor says

A newly elected councillor has said people living in the Shankill area are wary of how they will be portrayed in the new “Belfast Stories” project, and believe they are a “fishbowl” to tourists.

While most councillors welcomed the report, and suggested ways to engage with areas of the city that had not yet given responses, Councillor Ian McLaughlin said there would be “a lot of work” to get people from the Shankill behind the project. A council officer said: “As a project we were committed at a very early stage to make sure that while through Belfast stories we want more people to come to the city, to spend more time here, we are committed to make sure that there is a neighbourhood tourism programme.

“One of the elements of feedback was if you have diversity in story gatherers that will result in diversity in the stories that are then shared. That was the programme over the summer, working with eight , and there was the training and skills element to that. But obviously there will not be a reliance on volunteers in delivering the much wider story collection programme.”

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