1.   It is understood the NIO is studying the feedback from the intermediaries and looking at ways of improving investment, jobs and housing in Protestant areas.

2.   Mr Creighton, a community leader in Glencairn, north Belfast, said that loyalist paramilitaries had no problem recruiting in the atrocious conditions in some Protestant areas.

3.   Anti-Paisley posters in Protestant areas would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

4.   Catholics who marry Protestants and live in Protestant areas often get threatening phone calls or find graffiti on their houses, the women said.

5.   Despite the cheers in the hall, the spectacle did not play well, particularly in Protestant areas in Northern Ireland.

6.   His party competes for votes with the smaller groups in elections in working-class Protestant areas.

7.   In the meantime, though their own neighbors are blessedly quiet, very few Catholics venture into Protestant areas, and vice versa.

8.   On the Shankill Road, an adjacent Protestant area, the mood was the same.

9.   The killing followed renewed conflict last week over a school for Catholic girls, Holy Cross, that is inside a Protestant area.

10.   They said they still get stares and nasty remarks when they venture into Protestant areas.