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Progress can only be made in N Ireland by taking risks, say veteran journalists

Progress can only be made by taking risks, one of Northern Ireland’s best-known political journalists has said.

Former UTV political editor Ken Reid and BBC Northern Ireland political editor Stephen Grimason were speaking as they were honoured for services to journalism by the Queen’s University Belfast.

The two men, who covered some of the worst atrocities of the Troubles before chronicling the

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