A leading Queen’s academic who claims that the Good Friday Agreement is failing ex-combatants has said that it is impossible to heal the past while continuing to punish people in the present and in the future. Professor Peter Shirlow, Deputy Director of the Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University, made the […]
Archive | June, 2015
Queen’s academic says past can’t be healed while protagonists continue to be punished
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‘Billion Dollar Man’ pledges to repeat $15m investment for north to secure stability
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — who controls a £110 billion pension fund for the state’s public workers and has been dubbed ‘the Billion Dollar Man’— has pledged to invest further funds in Belfast start-ups. Delivering the keynote speech at the annual New York-New Belfast conference in the Big Apple on Friday, he said […]
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For families living with a child’s brain injury, funding for new project is a godsend
A BELFAST charity has received £700,000 to work with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in order to support children with brain injuries. The Family First project will offer intensive support to children under 12 with acquired brain injury and their families. Fiona McCabe, Chief Executive of Brain Injury Matters, said: “Acquired brain injury […]
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Large crowds at Hannahstown as ‘blue-eyed boy’ Eamonn Jnr is laid to rest
THE West Belfast community and boxing fraternity were united in grief on Friday as mourners gathered from early morning in a rain soaked Hannahstown for the Requiem Mass for slain boxer Eamonn Magee Junior. 22-year-old Eamonn Jnr, the son of former WBU welterweight champion Eamonn Magee Senior, was brutally stabbed to death in the early […]
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When the Rabbie Burns of Ulster marched with the United Irishmen
They say you don’t go through Ballycarry, you go to it. Situated between Larne and Carrickfergus, this village might be seen as something of a backwoods but it has an illustrious past and was home to one of the most talented rhyming weavers who flourished in Antrim and Down in the nineteenth century. Known as […]
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£30,000 spent on Ballyduff bonfire dubbed ‘the Beast’ – but it will burn tyres in defiance of council protocol
Ratepayers in Newtownabbey who last year voiced their anger at £30,000 being spent on a permanent platform for a bonfire in Ballyduff are to fork out up to £44,000 for Twelfth of July celebrations across the new super council area next month. And in a bizarre twist, the Ballyduff bonfire for which the platform was […]
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