Belfast: Being Young in a Divided City: Belfast_BYiaDC_05

Joel, 15, wraps his hands with bandage before boxing practice at the City of Belfast Boxing Academy located on the Protestant side of the peace wall separating the small Catholic enclave Short Strand from the rest of the Protestant east Belfast. The boxing gym is located exactly on a peace line and although the gym is open to boxers from both communities, it's almost exclusively attended by young people from the Protestant side of the wall.