“This is nerve-tingling – people standing on their feet in Belfast. McQuillan hits it well; it’s dropping in… and it’s off the post off the fingertips of Anthony Tohill.” RTE commentator, Marty Morrissey AS the storm clouds parted, they gave way to a bright new day for Antrim football. The 18 long years of pain […]
Archive | May, 2020
EDITORIAL: After rocky start, Stormont finding its feet in Covid crisis
MONDAY was a milestone in the Covid crisis, as it was the first time since the first death in Ireland on March 11 that no deaths from the virus were reported on the island. But when the history of the pandemic in Ireland comes to be written, will it have been a positive milestone or […]
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One million steps challenge for Carly
A West Belfast woman is preparing to walk a mammoth one million steps all the while promoting and fundraising for two vital mental health awareness charity organisations. Lenadoon’s Carly Walsh told the Andersonstown News how she had been bereaved by suicide at the start of the year. Carly credited Downpatrick-based ALPS (All Lives Are Precious) […]
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MP fumes at the Mountain arsonists and calls for respect for ‘our greatest assets’
WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has appealed to the public to respect the Divis and Black Mountain following a gorse fire, apparently set deliberately, on Monday. In recent years, large sections of the mountain have been burnt as arsonists have set fire to dry scrubland, including yellow-flowered gorse shrubs. On Monday afternoon, smoke could be […]
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Councillors warn youth on nitrous oxide canisters ‘craze’
NORTH Belfast councillors are warning over the dangers of young people inhaling nitrous oxide from canisters in a new ‘craze’. Large numbers of empty canisters of the potetially deadly gas, also known as laughing gas, have been found around Marrowbone Park on the Oldpark Road where large crowds of young people have been gathering, despite […]
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OPINION: Our very own Great Wall of China will have Louis MacNeice spinning in his grave
Is anything more awfully emblamatic of this time of lockdown in which we live than the Great Wall of China at the Sino superpower’s consulate on the Malone Road? One of South Belfast’s finest houses transformed into a Green Zone bunker — and nary a finger lifted in protest by the same authorities who go […]
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