Violence linked to the feud also spread out of Belfast to other areas of Northern Ireland, including counties Antrim and Londonderry.

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No-one from Tidy Northern Ireland, where beaches in County Londonderry and Antrim were highlighted, was available to comment.

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On January 15th came allegations that Ian Paisley junior, a member of the Stormont Assembly, had used the power-sharing talks that got his father the top job in Northern Ireland to lobby for business interests in his North Antrim constituency.

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