Sports fans! check this out. Maze could become leisure mecca

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From The BBC:
By Gareth Gordon
BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent

Once it was a potent symbol of Northern Ireland's divisons - a place of bitter conflict, murder and political protest to the death.

Now the site of the notorious Maze Prison could be transformed into the biggest leisure complex in Ireland.

The province's warring politicians have finally agreed on one thing - a way to develop the 360-acre site so that it can become a beacon for the future - while still enshrining, forever, its own troubled past.

The corridors of the Maze have lain empty since the last prisoners left in 2000

Ever since the final prisoner left in September 2000, arguments have raged about what to do with the prison site. <snip>


--- I'd pay money to see this. ---


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4289233.stm

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1. Especially if Irish athletes dominated

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