The Northern Ireland Assembly voted for a plan to devolve policing and justice powers to Belfast.
The police defeated a plot to sneak the bomb into Belfast Airport.
The menu, along with other items of memorabilia from the ship, were bought by a private museum in Belfast, where the Titanic was built.
But hopes of turning a handsome profit from golf tourism were instantly undermined: images of violence in east Belfast conjured up the worst memories of the bad old days.
The key area of intelligence responsibility has been divided between the branch and MI5, which is based in a large purpose-built office in a military base near Belfast.
Sheila lived at Belfast Zoo until she was moved to her unusual home in 1941 as the city underwent the so-called Belfast Blitz.
Belfast: the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, in the eastern part of the country on Belfast Lough, an inlet of the North Channel of the Irish Sea.
"A theory of mind is something that even 4-year-olds have," says Jesse Bering, who directs the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Belfast University.
The protests are less political than cultural-they reflect a sense among poor Belfast Protestants that Catholics are getting everything they want and that unionist heritage is being erased.
Catholic areas of Belfast tend to be overcrowded, while many Protestant blocks lie derelict.
He is a graduate in history from Trinity College Dublin and studied newspaper journalism at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
In Westland row he halted before the window of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company and read the legends of lead-papered packets: choice blend, finest quality, family tea.
Spokesmen occasionally appear, but most are wild-eyed ranters—"headcases", in Belfast argot.
As to what motivates them, a dissident spokesman provided a clue last month in a rare interview with a Belfast paper, the Irish News.
The company decided to sell Belfast as a sales base.
Perhaps it was unwise of him to blame just one religion for trying to mark out urban territory; in recent memory, one British city (Belfast) had no-go areas for people of the “wrong” Christian sect.
Established more than 100 years ago, we are an "all-island" law firm with offices in Dublin and Belfast.
The benefits of reconciliation were clear to see when I visited Belfast in June.
From London, President Bush and Prime Minister Brown traveled to Belfast to show their support for the Northern Ireland peace process.
Once dour Belfast had been transformed.
貝爾法斯特(Belfast)的社會心理學家亞瑟·卡西迪博士(DrArthurCassidy)表示，我們送禮的部分動機是出於作爲送禮者所體驗到的一種內在的心理回報。
