evidence: Temporary barricades put up to quell the violence eventually "hardened into permanent lines of demarcation" and became "the so-called peace walls which still divide Belfast’s streets", said The Irish Times in a 2019 article on why some Belfast residents "want to keep their peace walls". [...] In 2019, the International Fund for Ireland’s Community Attitudes to Peace Walls Survey found that 76% of residents in Belfast were strongly in favour of the barriers being removed "within the lifetime of their children or grandchildren" - up from 69% in a 2017 poll. [...] The existence of peace walls is still strongly linked to safety and security for many Belfast residents, with 58% in the more recent survey viewing this as the main function of the barriers.