BELFAST Deputy Lord Mayor Mary-Ellen Campbell has called for the installation of a stained glass window at the City Hall. The North Belfast Sinn Féin councillor proposed the motion at the monthly Council meeting which was held on Monday night, in recognition of LGBT citizens in the city. “Belfast has a vibrant LGBT community and […]
Archive | April, 2017
Stained glass window is proposed for city LGBT community by Mary-Ellen
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Suicide support charity set to benefit from recycling cash
NORTH Belfast mental health charity Pips is to benefit from a new scheme by a local social enterprise that will see them receive £1 for every tonne of material recycled. The ‘Recycling Rewards’ are operated by Bryson Recycling and for every tonne of glass, paper and plastic collected through kerbside boxes, £1 will be donated […]
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Tributes paid to West Belfast dad
TRIBUTES have been paid to a West Belfast father who died after his car collided with a lorry in Crumlin yesterday (Monday) morning. Manuel Caddell had been driving around 10.50am when his Audi collided with the back of a lorry at the junction of Nutts Corner Road and Manse Road. The lorry driver was unharmed […]
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Famous Irish artist’s work goes on show
AS Easter approaches and the patriotic spirit is on the rise, there’s no better time to visit the Gerard Dillon Gallery in the Cultúrlann where a rarely seen depiction of the 1916 Easter Rising is on display in an exhibition by renowned Irish artist Thomas Ryan. The painting depicts rebels firing at approaching British forces […]
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Controlled explosions carried out on car in Twinbrook
THE PSNI have said they believe a car at the centre of a weekend security alert in Twinbrook was connected to a robbery in the Cutts area of Dunmurry earlier in the week. During the robbery three men dressed as postmen and one armed with a suspected firearm, entered the office premises in the Cutts. […]
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A story that still inspires 37 years on
By Pádraig Ó Muirigh “It’s not Gods will for some to have everything and others to have nothing” – Archbishop Óscar Romero LAST week marked the 37th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero at the hands of a right wing death squad in San Salvador. His death precipitated a brutal civil war in […]
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