I DID a Zoom interview last week with Colm Gildernew MLA (yes, Virginia, brother of the more famous Michelle G) on the subject of electoral boundaries. I’d talked to him about this subject a couple of years ago, so it was interesting to see how this most sensitive of topics had developed since. To begin […]
Archive | May, 2020
OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: Gerrymandering hasn’t gone away, you know
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Interview: Belfast famed film director’s words of comfort to isolated youth – It’s the bullied who make the magic happen
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir in conversation with Mark Cousins whose latest movie, Women Make Film, a 14-hour epic has been released to rave reviews. You can hear the audio of the interview on Otter.ai. BelfastMedia.com: Who is Mark Cousins? Mark Cousins: So Mark cousins is a Belfast boy who loves to travel around the world and the thing […]
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Bernie survives her second pandemic
A 90 year-old West Belfast woman who survived TB back in the 1940s is recovering from Covid-19. Bernie McNairney- who turns 91 on June 4 and suffers from dementia- was diagnosed with the deadly virus six weeks ago. Originally from Albert Street, Bernie has been living in Brooklands Care Home in Dunmurry for five years […]
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OPINION: British have torpedoed legacy payments scheme by targeting victims of state collusion
For anyone who cares to peel back the veneer the matter of who funds a payments scheme for the injured isn’t the only issue to be resolved In 2019 Relatives for Justice made a submission to an NIO consultation on the need for a payments scheme for those injured during the conflict. In our response […]
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‘It has been such an honour to be mayor of Belfast’
NOT sitting comfortably – but rather “walking and talking” during the blistering last week of May – outgoing Lord Mayor Danny Baker tells the Andersonstown News that he got “stuck in” to the role of First Citizen in what has been a whirlwind six months. The Sinn Féin Colin Councillor took over the mayoral chain […]
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OPINION: Government resources are finite but I hope it can support the most trusted medium of all in this crisis: newspapers
Unlike many businesses, local newspapers serving communities rocked by the pandemic didn’t have the option of shuttering operations during the lockdown – because they wanted to keep publishing to bolster the community during the emergency. The Belfast Media Group is proud to be among those publishers. In many countries and regions, the media is viewed […]
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