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Thu 09 Sep 2007Crumlin Road jail opens its gatesAn eerie gallows room greeted visitors to Crumlin Road jail today as the prison threw open its gates for the first time.Tourists at the imposing centre in north Belfast enjoyed a guided tour, including the cell where the condemned man waited for his punishment and the famous underground tunnel to the courthouse across the road where the sentence would have been handed out.