Thousand of businesses will go bust within months and tens of thousands of jobs will be lost permanently if government doesn’t block landlords who are piling pressure for rent payments on companies which have closed their doors. That’s the view of real estate expert Conor Devine who has raised his concerns with Finance Minister Conor […]
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Thousands of businesses will go bust if landlords aren’t reined in warns real estate expert
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LIVES REMEMBERED: Belfast footballing fraternity mourns Newington F.C. stalwart Martin ‘Sucksie’ O’Rourke
NEWINGTON Football Club Chairman Colum Burns has paid tribute to local football stalwart Martin O’Rourke, who passed away earlier this month. The 69-year-old is understood to have suffered a heart attack at his home. A three-time Cochrane Corry Cup winner with Malachians in the 1970s, O’Rourke was a popular and well-respected figure in North Belfast. […]
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SPORT: The Bucket List
With the return of live sport still some time off, Paddy Tierney takes us through his sporting bucket list of events he hopes to attend when the gates reopen. Aintree Grand National The Cheltenham Festival may be the highlight of the National Hunt season, but the three-day Aintree Festival remains one of my favourite sporting […]
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Victims’ campaigner Gerry finds comfort and solace in his writing
THE shuddering jolt of a newspaper headline was the spark that Gerry Armstrong needed to pick up a pen and write his first poem. Thirty years on and the well-known victims’ campaigner is putting the final touches to an exhibition of his poetry, but he has also set sail on his most ambitious venture yet […]
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Relive Antrim’s 1989 All-Ireland final appearance
WHILE sports fans have been starved of live-action for over six weeks, the down-time has afforded the opportunity to deliver some great games of the past with old classics filling the void. Sunday afternoons are now dominated by some of these fixtures on TG4 with Sundaypast seeing the 2017 All-Ireland Hurling final between Galway and […]
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Health Department handling of Coronavirus crisis in care homes “disastrous”: Sheehan
A Sinn Féin MLA who sits on Stormont’s Health Committee has blasted the Health Department response to the Covid-19 crisis in care homes as “disastrous”. Pat Sheehan was speaking after Health Minister Robin Swann pledged additional resources for care and nursing homes which have been battered by the virus — one third of all Covid-19 […]
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