BELFAST (Reuters) - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland launched the province’s first mixed housing scheme on Monday in which families from either side of the country’s political and religious divide will live side by side.

Northern Ireland’s Roman Catholics, most of whom support a united Ireland, and its majority Protestant community, who want to retain the province’s ties to Britain, live largely apart following a three-decade sectarian conflict. Read the rest of this entry »

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