RACIST ATTACKS in Belfast “show no sign of abating” according to a new report analysing the worrying rise in hate crime. The report – ‘Racism and Racist Attitudes in Northern Ireland – has been published by the trade union-affiliated think-tank Trademark. Belfast has earned the unwelcome title of ‘race hate capital of Europe’ in recent […]
Archive | March, 2015
New report paints bleak picture of city’s race problem
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MLAs take the plunge in support of Lagan Search and Rescue
Two MLAs took the plunge yesterday to support the lifesaving war of Lagan Search and Rescue. Máirtín Ó Muilleoir of Sinn Féin and Sammy Douglas of the DUP joined forces to take part in a simulated rescue by the volunteers of Lagan Search and Rescue in the Lagan at Shaws Bridge on Sunday – before […]
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Concern over progress of university move to Cathedral Quarter
Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey is to seek meetings with fellow Stormont ministers over what he says is a lack of coordination amongst departments regarding the University of Ulster’s move to the Cathedral Quarter. Minister Storey revealed he had sought the meetings when he was quizzed in the Assembly over how the UU move was […]
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New Irish language centre opens in North Belfast
North Belfast’s burgeoning Irish language community has received more good news with the opening of a new centre that aims to promote the Irish language and culture. Cumann Cultúrtha Mhic Reachtain (McCracken Cultural Society), which each summer hosts one of Ireland’s largest summer schools, has taken over the old Christian Brothers Past Pupils Union building […]
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British ‘embarrassed’ by Finucane Congress address
TESTIMONY by Geraldine Finuncane to the US Congress this week on behalf of her murdered husband will be ‘a huge source of embarrassment’ to the British Government her son has claimed. The Belfast family took their fight for a public inquiry into Pat Finucane’s murder to New York and Washington DC on Wednesday (March 18) […]
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West would be worst hit by public sector cuts
BY TIARNÁN Ó MUILLEOIR t.omuilleoir@belfastmediagroup.com A NEW report claims that West Belfast would be the area most impacted by the public sector redundancy scheme agreed as part of the Stormont House talks. The report, carried out by the centre-left Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI), analysed the geographic spread of public sector employment in the North, […]
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