BY TIARNÁN Ó MUILLEOIR t.omuilleoir@belfastmediagroup.com PEOPLE Before Profit Councillor Gerry Carroll has announced he is to run in the upcoming Westminster election in West Belfast. The local representative for the Blackmountain Ward says he aims to “offer an alternative to the parties of austerity”. “All the main parties are in agreement that austerity has […]
Archive | March, 2015
Carroll vows to take on ‘austerity parties’
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School and community come together in a Model of good practice
A unique concept transforming the use of closed spaces in North Belfast for the benefit of the community is continuing to reap rich dividends. The North Belfast City Learning Centre, based at the Model School for Girls and Boys, facilitates the use of the school’s state-of-the-art facilities on evenings and at weekends. The facilities are […]
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Belfast attacks spark fears of return to gun law
A North Belfast man has spoken of how he was forced to barricade himself into his home as a gang of armed and masked men tried to break down his front door. And the shooting of two men in a paramilitary-style attack on the outskirts of Belfast last night has led an SDLP councillor to […]
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Celebrating the life of ‘Home Rule Harrison’, a forgotten British war hero and Parnell lieutenant
As an Oxford-educated Protestant landowner and Member of Parliament who was decorated for bravery in the First World War, Henry Harrison was fairly typical of the unionist aristocracy who represented Ireland in the British House of Commons in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But Henry differed from the social circle in which he […]
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‘No-one had a clue’ – staff devastated as 200 jobs go at call centre
The company that’s about to lay off 200 workers at its West Belfast offices was advertising for staff on this Andersonstown Road billboard yesterday even as it was telling its workers the bad news. Staff at the Ageas call centre in Springvale Business Park were called into a meeting without warning yesterday afternoon to learn […]
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Cartoon art tells the history of a forgotten decade
South Belfast historian Barry Sheppard is to showcase the fascinating political art and cartoons of a forgotten decade at this year’s Spring Festival in Belfast. Barry is a post-graduate of Queen’s University Belfast where by he studied the art and politics of 1930s Ireland in great detail and it is this period on which […]
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