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State papers: Tony Blair wanted Wimbledon FC to move to Northern Ireland but senior civil servant warned it could be ‘another focus for sectarianism’
At a charity event in 2000 compered by comedian Patrick Kielty, then Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Mandelson asked loudly if his father had been a member of the IRA .
Former prime minister Tony Blair was keen to relocate a Premier League football team to Belfast in the late 1990s, previously confidential state papers have revealed.
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