The 13th annual Aisling Bursaries were launched this week. The Aisling Bursaries is an initiative which is delivered by the West Belfast Partnership Board in conjunction with the Belfast Media Group.
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Flagship restaurant still going strong despite closure of hotel
ONE of Belfast’s oldest Chinese restaurants will not be affected by its owners’ decision to close a city hotel due to turbulent economic conditions. The Welcome restaurant on Stranmillis Road first opened its doors in 1973, and is owned by the Wong family, whose Welcome Group also owns the Lansdowne Hotel in North Belfast, which shut last week with the loss of up to 35 jobs
iPlunkett greets Minister
Education Minister John O’Dowd paid a special visit to St Oliver Plunkett Primary School to see how pupils are learning through daily use of their new iPads.
‘I can’t believe they said I killed my son’
A West Belfast mother has spoken of her heartbreak at losing her baby son to cot death – just a year after her daughter narrowly escaped death from meningitis.
Student group slams uni’s Jubilee closure
THE closure of Queen’s University to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth is further evidence that the institution is a “cold house for nationalism”, it has been claimed. A republican student group has slammed the decision to mark the jubilee event by offering June 4 and 5 as additional leave days, and said it followed a number of other university decisions that established the ‘overtly unionist’ character of the South Belfast institution.
It’s a buyer’s market as new report logs prices
There was some good news for prospective house buyers this week as a new report revealed that the average price of a house in West Belfast has dropped by almost six per cent to £105,121
