A summer camp tries to bridge the religious divide between communities in Northern Ireland.
Children and young people from across Northern Ireland and from both Catholic and Protestant communities spend a week together at Castlerock.
Apart from the fun, they find an opportunity to meet, perhaps for the first time, with youngsters of another religion.
The group currently at Castlerock is comprised of Catholic children from Andersonstown and Protestant children from Whiteabbey.
Once away from a background of trouble, the children get on well together and discuss their religious differences.
While a welcome initiative for the children and the communities, this experience is just for a week once a year. When the camp ends, there is no contact kept up between the children from the different religious groups when they return home.
Patricia Masterson, a youth leader in Andersonstown, has been to Castlerock four times this year with different groups of children. She sees firsthand how the camp enables the children to broaden their outlook towards soldiers, which is a big step forward for people from Andersonstown. She says that the project has received a very positive response from parents in Andersonstown. The camp offers children from both sides the opportunity to set out their views and sort out their differences.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 4 September 1975.
