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SUNDAY JUNE 2

BLUE LIGHTS

New trouble in old Belfast

The first season of the Belfast-set drama may not entirely have transcended its standard police procedural format –as one reviewer put it, it was “like a cross between and –but it was widely regarded as up with the best that format could be and was a surprise hit with British viewers. This second season picks up a year on from the events of the first: the McIntyre Republican crime gang might have fallen but the city is drowning in drugs and petty

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