FACTBOX - Catholics and Protestants see hope in Belfast

(Reuters) - Many people in Belfast hope large-scale sectarian killings will never return to Northern Ireland as it marks 10 years since the Good Friday peace agreement largely ended three decades of violence.

Here is a selection of quotes from people in the city about what has changed, and what they hope for.

Jim McLean, 44, health service manager, on Falls Road, a Catholic stronghold:

"It would seem to me everything is still beneath the surface. They are used to resorting to violence. So I'll be interested to see how people react when they meet the challenges that are inevitably going to come. It just seems too good to be true ... People are sort of incredulous that these two sets of great enemies over the years have really embraced each other and are working well together.

"It won't take much within a marching season for something to go wrong and bring violence back in the streets. Not on the scale of the way it was, certainly not guns and bombings on the street, but the community tensions could certainly show."

John McCausland, carpet seller, 67, on Shankill Road, a Protestant stronghold:

"There are more people coming to stay in hotels and guesthouses, more visitors over to see what's going on. In some ways (my business is not better) because when there were bombs nobody went into town, they all shopped within their own area, whereas now they go all over the place.

"I don't believe it will ever go back again (to fighting). They can see that with all that shooting they weren't getting anywhere. A lot of it was more gangsterism than anything else because people have made fortunes out of the Troubles. It wasn't just Protestants and Catholics fighting. Some people had a vested interest in keeping it going because they were getting a lot of money out of it."

Mary, 40, housekeeper in Farset International, a West Belfast hotel with employees of various backgrounds: