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Thu 09 Sep 2010Legacy of Troubles can't be ignored in Northern crisis
OPINION:In a new report on the North, all references to the conflict are decidedly in the past tense, writes DAVID ADAMS
A REPORT published last week by the London-based think tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), paints a grim picture of (mainly working-class) post-conflict society in Northern Ireland. Inappropriately titled Breakthrough Northern Ireland, the report describes inordinately high levels of educational underachievement, long-term unemployment, welfare dependency, family breakdown, poverty, deprivation, mental illness, suicide, debt, alcohol dependence, illicit and pharmaceutical drug abuse, and anti-depressant use.
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