I HAD an opportunity to meet with a high-powered delegation from Vanderbilt University in our sister city of Nashville, Tennessee in the Lord Mayor’s Parlour this week and got to discuss the city’s contribution to the civil rights struggle in the US.
Archive | October, 2011
How Belfast-Nashville can become a real sister act
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Bredagh GAC round-up ….
Ulster’s largest Gaelic Athletic club, Bredagh GAC, based on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Saturday night with a glittering black tie dinner at Queen’s University’s Whitla Hall.
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Copious amounts to support for local groups
A local business is helping community groups across South Belfast gain funding via a new project that sees a unique approach to consultancy work.
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Time to rebuild Nashville bridges
The visit this week of a delegation of senior representatives of the prestigious Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, gives Belfast a chance to renew and rejuvenate its lopsided, unionist-only sister city relationship with the ‘Athens of the South’.
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Just the ticket as generous Claire gives up MTV seats
A LOCAL councillor has raised a total of £800 for charity by auctioning off tickets for the upcoming MTV European Music Awards in Belfast.
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Half-truths and whole-truths
Why do they always make witnesses in court swear to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”?
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