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To help people going to the marathon there will be special early morning trains from Londonderry, Larne, Bangor, and Newry to Belfast Lanyon Place.

Finegan was the subject of sex assault accusations from several victims who were under his supervision as children when he worked as a parish priest in Clonduff and a headmaster in Newry.

However, the Diocese of Dromore has since paid substantial damages to some of Finegan's former pupils from Newry's St Colman's College.

This was as a result of Christopher Fulton, 35, assaulting him in a fashion Newry Crown Court heard was "similar to a car crash" in terms of severity.

A very young child who was left blind and brain damaged following a serious assault "has been deemed life limited", Newry Crown Court has heard.