West Belfast comedian Paddy Raff is looking forward to reaching out to his biggest audience to date when his pilot TV show goes out on the BBC tonight. Paddy is fast becoming a social media sensation with his hilarious observations on Belfast life. His meteoric rise over the past 18 months has seen the Brooke […]
Archive | July, 2020
From social media to the big screen: West Belfast comedian Paddy Raff makes his TV debut tonight
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Health Committee Report: Unionist bid to sanction members who attended Bobby Storey funeral
Health Committee 09 July 2020 In a week which has concentrated on one funeral, Boris suggested that care homes had not followed ‘procedures’ and Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health in England, suggested that the decision to transfer patients from hospital to care homes had been a clinical decision without test results. This […]
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GAA hardens stance on training date breaches
THE GAA has insisted the September 14 date for inter-county returning to collective training will not be brought forward and is now prepared to punish counties for breaching the protocols. The move is something of a u-turn from the association following comments made by GAA president John Horan who said counties wouldn’t be penalised for […]
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EDITORIAL: It’s vital Executive returns to the task of keeping people safe and alive
IT’S a matter of huge regret that the excellent job that the First and deputy First Minister were doing in battling the Covid pandemic has been hit by the current row over Michelle O’Neill’s attendance at the funeral of Bobby Storey. Let it also be said that it is also a matter of regret that […]
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Andersonstown Leisure Centre to open in phased relaunch
THE state-of-the art gym and fitness suites at the new Andersonstown Leisure Centre are finally set to open next week. It comes as GLL – which operates ‘Better’ leisure facilities on behalf of Belfast City Council – has announced plans for a phased re-opening of nine of Belfast’s leisure centres from Tuesday (July 14). The plans […]
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New gin’s a real tonic for Eimear’s Wish campaign
THE family of a young West Belfast cancer victim, who passed away last year, have produced a limited edition commemorative gin to raise vital funds for charity. Seán Smyth, whose daughter Eimear Gooderham (née Smyth) died in June 2019, is asking people to donate £30 for a 70cl bottle Eimear’s Wish Gin. In September 2016, […]
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