Allianz Hurling League Division 2A Antrim v Meath (Portglenone, Sunday, 12.30pm) ANTRIM’S hurlers will seek to take another step towards the Division 2A final this Sunday lunchtime in the unfamiliar surroundings of Portglenone when they host a Meath team whose own promotion ambitions are hanging by a thread. Storm Dennis forced the postponement of the […]
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Antrim set for Royal rumble in new surroundings
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Saffrons seeking to dash hopes of ‘Carlow Rising’
Allianz Football League Division Four Antrim v Carlow (Sunday, 2.30pm, Glenavy) THE summer may feel a world away with storms Ciara and Dennis visiting these shores on successive weekends, but Antrim skipper Declan Lynch believes this Sunday’s clash with Carlow will be like a Championship battle. Not only are the stakes high for both teams, […]
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Can the shrew be tamed at the Lyric?
THERE was no need to ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’ at the Lyric Theatre’s dazzling and sharp adaptation of Kiss Me, Kate. Set both on and off stage during the production of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, this production revolves around the tempestuous love lives of actor-manager Fred Graham/Petruchio and his […]
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Renewed calls to open historic cemetery
THERE have been renewed calls this week for Belfast City Council to re-open the historic Clifton Street Cemetery to the public. The gates at the Henry Place site are locked to the public and can only be accessed by prior arrangement with Council officials. Local Sinn Féin councillor JJ Magee seconded a motion brought by […]
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Everyday sacrifices behind the music
THURSDAY afternoon at a kitchen table and West Belfast actress Antoinette Morelli is poring over old photographs of her showband legend father Tony. She’s also got stacks of postcards he sent home from wherever he was performing in the world. It’s that legendary Showband era that forms the basis of Keep Telling Me Lies, a […]
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Council apologise after grave mistake
BELFAST City Council has had to apologise to a recently bereaved family after falsely informing them that a stranger was buried in their loved one’s grave. Last week, Council officials told the West Belfast family they could not bury their relative alongside her mother as there was an additional person interred in the burial plot. […]
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