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⏲ Duration: 23 min 88 sec ✓ Published: 17-Oct-2012
Description: Like many cities in Britain, Belfast suffered industrial decline in the 1960s.High unemployment rates were the norm for many of the housing estates in west Belfast.nn“Official statistics in Ballymurphy had 37% of head of households unemployed”Ciarán de Baróid.nn“I had been trying to get young apprentices brought into Mackies for a long, long time, because it was one of the biggest industrial projects in the city close to west Belfast. There were no apprenticeships offered to young Ca