A torrent of goodwill messages will flood in tomorrow (30 March) for leading human rights solicitor and United Ireland campaigner Niall Murphy who is gravely ill after contracting the Coronavirus. Friends of the North Belfast man, who is chair of Naomh Éanna GAA club and a founder of the neighbouring Gaelscoil Éanna, have asked the […]
Archive | March, 2020
Outpouring of support and solidarity for community hero Niall Murphy as he battles Coronavirus
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SQUINTER’S SIDEWAYS LOOK AT THE WEEK: Is this your car, sir? and other ways to ’embrace the spirit of Northern Ireland’
AS the Covid-19 crisis deepened and Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and certain members of our newly-reconvened Executive decided that a policy of letting eight people out of ten contract the coronavirus was not a good idea after all, it was time for a rethink. Cometh the hour, cometh the woman, and as people watched fearfully […]
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Mater Hospital Coronavirus hub is ready for surge says Emergency Department consultant
AN Emergency Department Consultant at the Mater Hospital says frontline health workers are ready to deal with the upcoming surge in Covid-19 patients. The Belfast Trust this week designated the Crumlin Road hospital as the main site for treating Covid-19 patients. Dr Eoghan Ferrie, Emergency Department Consultant at the Mater, stressed that many people who […]
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WE SAY: How we rise to this Coronavirus challenge is vital
WHILE the Stormont response to the Coronoavirus crisis was significantly ramped up this week, the early sense of inertia injected into the populace by the crazy decision not to close the schools early and the continued failure to follow the World Health Organisation plea to ‘Test, test, test’ has lingered. That was to be seen […]
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TRIBUTE: Legendary New York architect Michael Sorkin who reimagined Belfast as a city for all
Michael Sorkin, who passed away on 26 March, after contracting the Coronavirus, was one of the rarest of talents. He had huge influence across continents and generations of urbanists, architects, planners and activists. He was an extraordinary intellectual who made incisive critique of both the current neo-liberal agenda and the blunt, crass commercialisation of profit-only […]
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The long and winding road for champion boxer Noel Magee built on courage and skill
“Has he quit? Has he quit? He has, you know. Delaney has quit on his stool. I don’t know why, but something is clearly very wrong and against all the odds, Magee has won the title.” (Eurosport commentator, David Brenner) IF at first, you don’t succeed, try and try again. Noel Magee had made four […]
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