ONLINE statistics are showing a very “significant uptake” for this year’s ‘virtual’ annual Clonard Solemn Novena as the event enters its fifth day. Up to 15,000 worshippers attend Clonard’s historic monastery for nine days each June, however, due to the Covid-19 crisis, the Novena, which began on Friday, is being streamed live with four sessions […]
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VIDEO REPORT: Faithful in their thousands tuning in for virtual Clonard Novena
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Ulster players to undergo Covid testing ahead of August return
ULSTER players and staff will undergo the Irish Rugby Football Union’s Covid-19 testing programme next week ahead of a return to collective training. The governing body will start the PCR tests with Leinster and Munster this week, with Ulster and Connacht to follow. Dan McFarland’s Ulster squad is due to return to training at the […]
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Art & Light – Bronagh Lawson previews the virtual Belfast School of Art final year Show
I feel for the students who have been finishing off their degrees over the last few months, particularly those needing access to studios or workshops to say nothing of the denial of having a physical degree show but Belfast School of Art has made the best of a difficult situation by having the degree show online. […]
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Meet lockdown fitness guru Oisín, Belfast’s Irish-speaking answer to Joe Wicks
Meet the Joe Wicks of the Irish language – Belfast’s Oisín Mac an Bhiocaire. Oisín has an army of fans for his weekly fitness classes streamed free on Facebook Live. And he knows what he’s talking about – the P4 teacher at Bunscoil Mhic Reachtain in North Belfast is also a part-time fitness instructor. “Yeah, […]
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Andersonstown pharmacy scores national first with Express Locker pick-up for prescriptions
Picking up your meds just got a whole lot easier thanks to a Continental innovation which has been brought to West Belfast by Cooper’s Pharmacy. Express Locker is a tired-and-tested method of prescription collection in Holland, where fully one in three scripts are picked up through the system, but this is the first time the […]
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End in sight for Unionist-designed Irish street name legislation which has echoes of Gerrymandering?
It’s almost 40 years since a Shaws Road man set out on a dark winter’s night to collect signatures from his neighbours for a petition urging Belfast City Council to allow him erect an Irish language street name outside his home on Rosgoill Park. That simple deed by Liam Andrews became the first effective challenge […]
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