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Mon 01 Jan 2010Belfast boys break ice of cross-Border suspicion
ANALYSIS:Martin McAleese has played an extraordinary – and largely unknown – role in winning trust and friendship of hardline loyalists in Belfast
NOTHING PREPARES you for the sight at the top of the stairs as you enter the McMichael Centre on Sandy Row in the heart of loyalist Belfast. There on a wall you will see a collage of photographs of President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin with residents of the area on one of their visits to Áras an Uachtaráin.
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