BELFAST is being invited to get on its dancing shoes as a major celebration of electronic dance music comes to the Titanic Quarter this May with the AVA (Audio Visual Arts) Festival. The conference and music festival will see heavy-hitting DJs and artists from the world of electronic music educate and entertain over the course […]
Archive | April, 2015
New festival will highlight strength of electronic dance music in the city
Read More
Comments Off on New festival will highlight strength of electronic dance music in the city
An Englishman in New Barnsley: Tory West Belfast candidate visits Easter parade and tells us he’ll canvass everywhere
The Conservative Party candidate running for the West Belfast Westminster seat says he is prepared to canvass the whole of the district and will be “sensitive” to historic anti-Tory feeling in the area. Paul Shea, one of 11 candidates the party is running across the north, also rejected claims that the decision not to field […]
Read More
Comments Off on An Englishman in New Barnsley: Tory West Belfast candidate visits Easter parade and tells us he’ll canvass everywhere
Warm memories shared of school which traced the history of the 20th century
FOND MEMORIES of a local primary school born at the opening of the 20th century and whose history traced momentous historical events are being shared on a popular new online social site. Local man Joseph Doyle, who attended St Finian’s Primary School on the Falls in the 1950s, has created the Facebook group ‘St Finian’s […]
Read More
Comments Off on Warm memories shared of school which traced the history of the 20th century
Recovery? What recovery? Belfast businessman says traders are struggling to soak up water charge hike
A Belfast business owner has dismissed Tory electioneering claims that the economy is in recovery and accused the government of putting the squeeze on small traders. Chairman of the Antrim Road Traders Association Paul Carlin said that small businesses were still feeling the strain of reduced spending and hit out any additional forms of “taxation”. […]
Read More
Comments Off on Recovery? What recovery? Belfast businessman says traders are struggling to soak up water charge hike
Big smiles on the Big Bus as Angela sets a new milestone
A Dunmurry woman has become the 10,000th woman in the north to be screened for breast cancer this year on local charity Action Cancer’s Big Bus. Angela Maxwell’s screening is a record-breaker for the charity, which is the only one in Ireland and the UK to offer free breast screening to asymptomatic women outside the […]
Read More
Comments Off on Big smiles on the Big Bus as Angela sets a new milestone
NI’s first pagan priest speaks of his hopes for pre-Christian religion
A Belfast shamanic healer has become the first pagan priest to be certified by the authorities since the time of Saint Patrick. Patrick Carberry, who’s based in Glengormley, applied to Stormont five months ago to be certified as a holy man and officials have now got back to him to say he can now carry […]
Read More
Comments Off on NI’s first pagan priest speaks of his hopes for pre-Christian religion
