1.   Mr Blair also confirmed that he had recently spoken informally to Sinn Fein members in the City Hall about his plans to visit community centres in nationalist areas.

2.   The strategy involved removing troops to barracks and standing down checkpoints in nationalist areas.

3.   Alex Attwood, an SDLP councilor in Belfast, says the anecdotal evidence is that there has been an increase in patrols in nationalist areas since the cease-fire.

4.   Graffitti went up in nationalist areas suggesting that IRA stood for I Ran Away.

5.   One Catholic resident said it was no secret in Catholic nationalist areas that many Catholics who once connived at IRA violence were turning against it.

6.   The reforms, announced on Wednesday, commit the British to speed the withdrawal of troops from nationalist areas in Northern Ireland and to demolish watchtowers and bases.

7.   But it ignited rioting, car hijackings and gun attacks across nationalist areas of Northern Ireland.

8.   But it said it wanted much more, including the removal of police from nationalist areas.

9.   In Belfast, Republican crowds took to the streets in nationalist areas of east and west Belfast and Armagh and nearby Lurgan on Thursday, following the orange march.