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Six things you didn't know about Ronan Bennett, the NI writer behind Netflix's Top Boy - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
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Ronan Bennett attending the UK premiere of Top Boy at the Hackney Picturehouse in London Stock Photo - Alamy
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