The £152million brand-new Critical Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital may have been designed to deal with every human emergency – but high winds at the weekend saw it struggle to deal with its first weather alert of the winter. There were farcical scenes at the 12-storey building as Belfast Trust vans were lined […]
Archive | December, 2015
Surgical gloves over smoke alarms, vans used to block wind: chaos at £152m new RVH Critical Care Unit
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South Belfast MLA rings the bell for cycle revolution
A SOUTH Belfast MLA who earlier this year founded Belfast’s first Ciclovía now has his sights set on the expansion of the Belfast Bike Share scheme. And while Máirtín Ó Muilleoir gave the thumbs-up to two new bike-share stands at Queen’s University students’ union and library, he says he won’t be content until the popular […]
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Specialist drugs easier to access for patients to access as tight rules are eased
SPECIALIST drugs not readily available at present to patients who need them could be within reach at last after a change in Department of Health rules. Previously, drugs not approved by the National Insitute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) were much more difficult to access in North Ireland thanks to the Individual Funding Requestion […]
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Antrim GAA coup as new group gets six elected at county convention
COLIN Donnelly was elected Antrim GAA Chairman at last night’s Antrim County Convention at Dunsilly. The 53-year-old St John’s clubman, who represented the county in both hurling and football, overcame outgoing vice-chair Joe Edwards by 88 votes to 51 on a night when the change-focused Saffron Vision group effectively pulled off a coup, having six […]
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North Belfast MP Dodds drops a bombshell by pulling out of DUP leadership race
NORTH Belfast MP Nigel Dodds yesterday dropped a political bombshell by ruling himself out of the running for the DUP leadership. And it has emerged that a majority of the party’s senior figures have thrown their weight behind Finance Minister Arlene Foster, who also has the support of over 75 per cent of party members […]
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SDLP and Sinn Féin linked by historic family ties
A FORMER leader of the SDLP and the grandson of an historical Sinn Féin figure have formed an unlikely partnership in the hope of having a blue plaque erected in Ardoyne to mark a fascinating piece of local history. Conor Bradley recently completed an unfinished manuscript written by his late grandfather, the prominent Sinn Féiner […]
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