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Inside Northern Ireland's football conveyor belt

BBC Sport NI spends the day at the IFA JD Academy Residential at Campbell College where Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill catches up with the young players hoping to graduate to a full-time career.

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Controversial Northern Ireland Protestant parade hits stalemate amid fresh talks

The UK's Northern Ireland minister Monday admitted that talks to overcome a dispute about a contentious pro-British Protestant parade through a mainly Catholic area had so far failed to resolve one of the region's worst crises in decades. Thousands of people occupied a road in Portadown, southwest of Belfast, on Sunday to prevent the parade by 35 members of the Orange Order taking place.

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Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after march blocked from historic flashpoint

Tensions ran high in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was blocked from making its way through the town of Portadown by thousands of protesters. It is the first time in nearly 30 years that the Orange Order parade has been allowed to go down the Garvaghy Road, which had been a notorious flashpoint between the communities in the years before the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 largely ended the bloodshed in Northern Ireland.