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Teenagers gloomy over community relations Only third feel things will get better

JUST over a third of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland believe community relations will improve in the next five years, according to a survey released today.

And almost two out of three of the teenagers live in areas which are predominantly made up of their own co-religionists.

Issued to coincide with Community Relations Week, the poll also showed Catholics generally feel more favourable about the Protestant community (45%) than vice versa (38%).

The statistics are based on the 2003 Life and Times Survey in which a sample of 902 16-year-olds were questioned online, by phone or by self-completed questionaires.

Overall the largest proportion of respondents thought that community relations ...

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