Campaigners have welcomed the attendance of the chairman of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry at a weekend seminar which discussed possible redress for victims. Sir Anthony Hart, who is heading up the Executive’s inquiry into institutional child abuse in the north, attended the Redressing Historical Institutional Abuse: International Lessons seminar on Saturday as a […]
Archive | April, 2015
Abuse campaigner welcomes attendance of inquiry chairman at redress event
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Belfast councillor failed to attend a single meeting of policing partnership in a year
A unionist councillor who failed to show up at a single District Policing and Community Safety Partnership meeting in 2014 says he stayed away because they are a “waste of time”. Veteran North Belfast Ulster Unionist David Browne says he purposely boycotted the 11 meetings because he doesn’t believe the Partnership is effective. Attendance figures […]
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Ryan surveys the wreckage as Kingdom’s late winner sinks sorry Saffrons
Allianz National Hurling League 1B/2A promotion/relegation playoff Kerry 2-16 Antrim 1-18 SOUL-searching and tough decisions are now the order of the day for Antrim hurling as they face life in 2A of the National Hurling League following Saturday’s one-point defeat to Kerry in a crunch promotion/relegation game at Parnell Park, writes David Mohan […]
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Young people from republican areas are joining the UUP, says West Belfast candidate
The Ulster Unionist Party candidate running for the West Belfast parliamentary seat says young people from Andersonstown are joining the party. Bill Manwaring said it is not just in unionist areas where the party is attracting new members but in nationalist areas too. Speaking to Daily Belfast, the Shankill man said the party is finding […]
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Belfast conference hears how sport gave direction to the Jackal in Tigers Bay
Belfast boxing hero Carl Frampton has spoken of how sport offered him a way out of some potentially destructive situations whilst growing up on a North Belfast interface. The Tigers Bay native – who’s Ambassador for the Sport Changes Life Foundation – made the admission at a conference at Ulster University promoting the role of […]
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A mother’s anguish as sick internet troll targets terminally-ill child
An internet troll has targeted the social media account of a terminally-ill Belfast toddler just one week after the 22-month-old suffered a cardiac arrest. The parents of Caoilte Fitzsimons, who suffers from the rare genetic muscle wasting condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), received the sick message on Easter Sunday as they were preparing to take […]
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