A new whisky distillery in a former Belfast prison which once housed paramilitary prisoners “epitomises the journey of transformation”, a Stormont minister has said.
The former prison’s A wing has been transformed by Belfast Distillery Company for the project in the Grade A-listed building. Ms O’Neill said the transformation of the historic site in north Belfast “lifts the area up”, and said there was a strong turnout of ministers because they believe in the transformation of the site.Mr Murphy was held in the same wing where the distillery is now located, in 1981.
“Particularly a building like this which was synonymous at that time with the Troubles, with imprisonment, with riots, with killings, with bombings, now being a place where we would bring tourists to, where we are able to tell the story of our own conflicted past in a way which doesn’t do damage to anyone but also to tell the story of the opportunity that has now been created out of this building.
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