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Article: 2am, Sunday, Belfast ... and it's like rush-hour as the city's streets come alive with thousands of revellers ; SIt's the small hours of the morning yet the city never sleeps. Jamie McDowell meets the party-goers, taxi drivers and emergency services for whom the night is still young
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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For many people a Saturday night means viewing Strictly or X
Factor, maybe followed by a take-away and a few drinks at home. But
for thousands of others, mainly young people, it is a night to let
their hair down, to hit the town and see what happens. We've all
seen the images of drunken revellers who make many UK city centres
weekend battle grounds shunned by people who just want a quiet
night's entertainment. So how does Belfast compare?
On a Saturday night recently, we trawled the city centre until
the early hours of Sunday morning, walking from the cobbled streets
of the Cathedral Quarter to the 'Golden Mile' -- the area stretching
from City Hall to the bottom of the Malone Road -- and ...