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October 30 2002 is a very important date in the recent history of Northern Ireland. On that day the UK's European capital of culture advisory panel curtly informed 'Imagine Belfast 2008' that it was not even worth including on the shortlist. It was the first time since the ceasefires that our special pleading sector had been publicly told to stop pushing its luck.

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