Linfield FC travel to west Belfast to play Donegal Celtic in a cross community football match.
Linfield FC, the team from the loyalist Donegall Road, travel to the republican heartland of west Belfast to play Donegal Celtic FC in a football match for the first time since 1948. Observers saw the match as another sign of how things have changed in Northern Ireland in recent years.
This was a scene not witnessed for almost six decades.
The visitors received a warm welcome but relations between the two teams have not always been so friendly. In 1990, there was rioting when the sides met at Windsor Park. Today's match was a demonstration of how things have changed.
Donegal Celtic chairman Raymond Bonner says that the supporters on both sides want to see the match go ahead as they have been starved of premiership football for almost sixty years.
Linfield FC manager David Jeffrey also sees the occasion as historic as it is the first time in his life that he has attended such a match.
Linfield FC scored the only goal in a match where the only real winner was sport.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 18 November 2006. The reporter is Brendan Wright.
