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Organisers want Sunday Marathon

Hopes are rising that the 2015 Belfast City Marathon will be held on a Sunday, as organisers urged Belfast City Council to support the plan. The Belfast City Marathon Ltd, which has the power to decide when a marathon is held, is in favour of a Sunday race, but will defer to Belfast City Council […]

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‘Leave the walls up,’ is the view of the residents

A report suggesting that Belfast’s peace walls should be dismantled by 2022 has been met with widespread opposition by nationalist residents living near the barriers in West Belfast. The idea was contained in a draft report on developing a new community relations strategy that has been under preparation by a cross-party Stormont group in recent […]

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Joe McCann killing ‘not justified’: HET

THE killing of an Official IRA man – who is immortalised in one of the most iconic images of the recent conflict – was “not justified” a new report has found. Joe McCann was a legendary figure in the early years of the Troubles. The West Belfast man was shot by the Parachute Regiment in […]

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Revealed: What Britain really spends here

Border poll takes a big step closer to reality

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Tributes pour in for tireless campaigner

Politicians from around the world mourn Inez

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Quarry may be asbestos dump

Now mountain eyesore wants to store toxic waste

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