O’DONOVAN Rossa were crowned All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling champions at a rain-lashed Croke Park yesterday. The West Belfast side scored a 1-9 to 2-3 win over Kilburn Gaels in what was a poor game but an incredible occasion. Stephen Beatty scored the Rossa goal two minutes after the break and this score was decisive as the […]
Archive | February, 2015
Fiery and fearless: Fr Fred Hanson is laid to rest
A famed Columban father who served in St Teresa’s parish in the turbulent seventies and eighties has died aged 98. Fr Fred Hanson was revered for his fiery sermons and no-nonsense approach — he often roared from the pulpit to admonish latecomers who stood at the back of his Glen Road chapel when seats were […]
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No, Minister: a study guide to that teacher training spat
Yesterday was a bruising day for Stephen Farry, the Alliance Party Minister for Employment and Learning, as the Stormont Executive pulled the rug from under him by vetoing his plan to take away £2.2m in special ‘premia’ from the city’s two teacher training colleges, Stranmillis and St Mary’s. In a long and sometimes ill-tempered struggle […]
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Health workers’ concern at plan to close dementia home
A Belfast residential home caring for 22 people living with dementia could be set to close under new proposals from the Health and Social Care Trust. Staff working at Ballyowen EMI (Elderly Mentally Infirm) Unit, known as Ballyowen House, are angry after being informed this week that a consultation process is in place that could […]
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Aaron dreams of Oscars glory
THE OSCARS could once again sprinkle their magic dust over Belfast after short film Boogaloo and Graham, starring St Colm’s High School pupil Aaron Lynch, bagged a Bafta at the weekend. Set in 1970s Belfast, the film follows two young brothers as they learn the lessons of life – with the help of their pet […]
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A&E crisis nothing to do with increase in patient numbers, says union rep ahead of planned strike
A SENIOR trade unionist at the Royal Victoria Hospital has denied that the A&E crisis is down to a surge in patient numbers and has instead placed the blame for the chaos on the decision to close the City Hospital emergency department. In November 2011 the Belfast Trust said that it was closing the City […]
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