A senior Sinn Féin member has denied allegations that the party “rolled over” on welfare reform. In an in depth interview in this week’s Andersonstown News the Sinn Féin six county chair, Bobby Storey, said the party “ensured the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society were protected from the Tory welfare cuts”. He […]
Archive | February, 2015
‘We did not roll over on Welfare Reform’
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Initiative to celebrate history of working-class radicalism
A NEW initiative aimed at celebrating Belfast’s history of working class radicalism has staged its first event, a lecture series on opposition to the First World War. The Belfast Working-Class History Group/Cumann Stair Lucht Oibre Bhéal Feirste was founded last year by a group of Belfast-based lay and professional historians, labour, community and youth activists. […]
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New course will help people deal with stress
FALLS LIBRARY will next week host a free workshop introducing locals to a unique course in stress reduction. West Belfast-born Frank Liddy is a founder of the Belfast Mindfulness Centre, which brings together meditation and yoga. Frank runs several courses and programmes in communities across the North using mindfulness and its meditative techniques to help […]
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Ruth takes aim in chamber
AN otherwise quiet February meeting of Belfast City Council ended in stormy recriminations following a disputed motion brought by the DUP’s Ruth Patterson on the subject of the union flag on NI driving licenses. Proceedings began on an equally bizarre note with Laganbank SDLP Councillor Patrick McCarthy alleging that while searching for Bible quotes on […]
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New book reveals history of Belfast cinemas
A WEST BELFAST man’s new book aims to bring Belfast’s cinematic history to life. Tom Hughes, born and raised in Hawthorn Street in the lower Falls, is a retired geography teacher whose fascination with the picture houses of his youth led him to undertake the painstaking research evident in the book’s 720 pages. The work, […]
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Make interim compensation payments now
A man abused by pedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth has appealed to the authorities to make an interim compensation payment to the victims of predatory clerics who ran state-sanctioned care homes. Sam Adair, who was repeatedly abused by Fr Brendan Smyth when he was ‘in care’ at Nazareth Lodge on the Ormeau Road, warned yesterday […]
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