I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

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Did you know that Northern Ireland is one of the toughest places in western Europe to open a new pub or start a microbrewery? However, despite restrictions and archaic laws, some of which date back mo

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