Mark Houston, Director of The Link Family and Community Centre in Newtownards sits down with Diane and Will. Mark's an engineer, a family man, and a musician, having been in bands with some remarkable names. He's also been plumber, pastor and peacemaker in communities with paramilitaries in their midst, and has learned much about knowing the battles to fight, and the battles to walk away from.

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"Peacemaking isn't easy" says Rev Tony Davidson as he tells Diane and Will about almost 30 years living and working in the city of Armagh, taking risks for peace. He saw gradual changes in hearts and minds and finally peace did come. Although there's always a cost, he wouldn't have it any other way. That's why Tony calls himself a "wounded healer".

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Darren O'Reilly really doesn't look like a monk. Yet he's a member of a religious community in County Antrim, a "Brother". He's also an experienced youth worker used to making connections and building relationships across many traditions. He's a former academic with a love for studying theology. As he tells Diane and Will, his own journey of Christian faith is one of constantly joining up the dots...

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