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How do we regenerate Belfast's dying city centre?
From derelict buildings to a visible drug problem, the city centre has suffered since the Covid pandemic.
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General election: Young people feel 'disillusioned and disenfranchised'
Fewer young people were registered to vote in the last Assembly election than any other age group.
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Public interest news 'needs government funding'
"There needs to be public funding for public interest journalism."
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May 2024

'Living in a house was like prison'. Travellers on their fight to retain their traditional way of life
Twenty years ago, a quarter of all Travellers in Northern Ireland lived in caravans. But by 2021 that number had dropped to 10%.
'No one's looking for special treatment, just equal treatment'
How Irish Travellers are still facing illegal discrimination more than 25 years after they were recognised as an ethnic minority
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'As a child, I was trying to deny being a Traveller, trying to fit in'
How poor experiences of education mean three-quarters of Irish Traveller children in Northern Ireland are still leaving school with fewer than five…
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PSNI put 'trouble maker' journalists under surveillance
Officers are understood to have accessed the phone bills of the unnamed group of Northern Ireland journalists in a bid to find potential police sources
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