Sickening sense of déjà vu for those who lived through Troubles

My first summer job, at the age of 16, was as a shop girl in the Belfast branch of the fashion chain Wallis, writes Kate Thompson

Back then, the brand was so far beyond my price range that it lent the work a specious glamour, even though my duties included hoovering, door security, cleaning windows, sitting sentinel in delivery lorries, fetching lunchbreak sandwiches, and realigning garments on the display rails.