ON A tense and emotional night at the Aviva the Republic of Ireland booked a berth in next summer’s Euro 2016 in France with an assured and solid 2-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzogovina in the play-off second leg. The match was finely balanced after Friday night’s 1-1 draw in Zenica but any fears that the low-scoring […]
Archive | November, 2015
Walters keeps his cool to fire precious double that sends Ireland to France
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UU researchers report exciting development in treatment of the most deadly cancer
Ulster University researchers have developed a new treatment that they believe may increase pancreatic cancer survival rates. UU researchers are pleased with the results so far of a revolutionary new process which involves injecting tumours with oxygen micro-bubbles coated in a drug which is subsequently activated by ultrasound. It’s thought that the new technique could […]
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Season’s greetings from frontline Belfast, where things aren’t all sleigh bells and snow
A superstitious Santa with a sackful of poitín, a down-on-his-luck man struggling to make it out of the pub with his turkey intact, a cheating husband and an abandoned granny are just some of the rich cast of Belfast characters a taxi driver picks up and sets down in the Lyric Theatre’s ‘Christmas Eve Can […]
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House burgled for second time during wait for police to examine initial break-in
A North Belfast man has hit out at police after he was kept out of his home for almost a week after a burglary – during which time he was burgled again. Alex Holgate, a 23-year-old student, had his home in Oakley Street off the Crumlin Road, ransacked and robbed while he was in Magherafelt […]
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Griffith reclaims his place in Irish history
Michael Collins said of Arthur Griffith that he “has none of the wildness of some I could name. Instead there is an abundance of wisdom and awareness of things which are Ireland”. That description comes through page after page in Owen McGee’s biography of Griffith – astonishingly the first major biography of one of the […]
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‘Fist-fighting is now part of RVH job description’
SECURITY guards at the Royal Victoria Hospital are regularly forced to brawl with drunks, drug-users and vulnerable individuals in wards and in the A&E department as pleas for help from senior management go unheeded. That’s the grim picture painted by a member of staff who we spoke to this week. He says spiralling violence on […]
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