Derelict buildings are so much of a concern in Northern Ireland that millions of pounds have been spent on fake shop-fronts to hide the issue, with the added benefit that cameras here for the Giro d'Italia in 2014 didn't catch sight of our dirty linen swinging in the breeze. In a way Belfast has previous for for this: just have a look through the windows of the mock frontage added to the row of houses at University Street decades before the current scheme brought the likes of a pretend record shop to the Lower Newtownards Road and a two-dimensional blacksmith shop to Ballyclare.

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