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Stormont Executive told to Pay Up or Shut Up by Nurses – Dr Michael Donnelly watches in on the last Health Committee Meet

In a week when Ireland won a seat on the UN Security Council and Belfast Greens might decide the next Taoiseach outside of the Albany, Boris decided to downgrade some of his medical experts by trumping a forty-year-old drug as a breakthrough. This may have been to disguise the fact that the much trumpeted App would […]

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BREAK A LEG AND GET PAID FOR IT: Brassneck Theatre company to fund uni scholarships

THE West Belfast Partnership Board are offering at least two Aisling Bursaries for young people to study the arts thanks to a kind sponsorship from Brassneck Theatre Company.  Now in its 20th year, the Aisling Bursaries are an education bursaries scheme delivered by the West Belfast Partnership Board to enable students to access further and […]

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VIDEO REPORT: Primark throws open its doors as lockdown restrictions ease

Hundreds of people queued along Castle Street in the city centre today to access the first day back in business for Primark. But it wasn’t exactly business as usual. Masked assistants stood at the doors to admit queueing customers as others left the popular city centre store. There were also signs outside the store enforcing […]

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Boxing returns as ‘new normal’ takes shape

THE ‘new normal’ – a term that that has slipped into our everyday conversations is no less real than it has become almost tiresome. Whether it is transport, shopping, work or our downtime, it’s widely accepted that the old ways of doing things are gone and perhaps may never return as we once knew. That […]

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WATCH: – GOING OUT ON A HIGH NOTE St Teresa’s Primary Seven pupils take a virtual bow

A little bit of ‘Wonka’ magic was sprinkled over the pupils from St Teresa’s Primary School this morning as their online performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, their final school show, went online. St Teresa’s Primary School Principal Terry Rodgers told the Andersonstown News how he and staff were determined to try and recreate […]

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‘Team Ulster’ is a non-starter says Antrim hurling captain Conor McCann

ANTRIM senior hurling captain Conor McCann says he doesn’t envisage the county ever being involved with a ‘Team Ulster’ following recent debates as to the merits of the concept. The idea was first mooted by former Cork star Donal Óg Cusack on the Sunday Game back in 2013, but failed to gain much traction within […]

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