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Brendan Crossan: Legal challenge on behalf of grassroots sport may yet prove game-changer

Local solicitor Stephen Atherton has mounted a legal challenge against the continued ban of young people playing outdoor sports
Brendan Crossan - The Boot Room
WHEN the history is written on how the blanket ban on grassroots sports was lifted and which ended the open prison of thousands of children across the north, people should remember the passion and cea[...]

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