The New York – New Belfast Conference, a major transatlantic conference celebrating and forging links between Belfast and New York, will move online for the first time, bringing together some of the senior leadership tasked with the fight against coronavirus in both cities to look at economic recovery plans. Belfast City Council is sponsoring the […]
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New Lord Mayor to perform first international engagement virtually at New York-New Belfast summit
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VIDEO REPORT: Jean Smyth-Campbell’s sister makes emotional appeal for information on 48th anniversary of her death
The family of West Belfast woman Jean Smyth-Campbell have urged witnesses to her death to come forward 48 years after she was shot dead. The 24-year-old mother-of-one was fatally wounded on the Glen Road around 11.40pm on June 8 1972 after a night out with friends. The family believed for several years that the IRA […]
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OPINION – Jude Collins: Presidential pomp undermines Michael D’s message of solidarity
A MENTAL itch that I’ve carried for decades has flared up in recent days. The people responsible for the flare-up are the clappers: you know, the people who stood outside their door Thursday nights and clapped the NHS workers. Am I saying that NHS workers don’t deserve a clap? Of course not – but I […]
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OPINION – Elly Odhiambo: Mount Kenya may be six times higher but Divis is a marvel to behold
SPRING 2020 is the sunniest on record. Northern Ireland has presented us with magical weather. I can’t believe it, I can’t complain. I used to hear of the story of the infamous Michael Fish, how he got it so wrong – the weatherman predicting for England a calm October 16th 1987 which became the hurricane […]
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EDITORIAL: Executive needs to better control Covid messaging as lockdown eases
FEARS that even a considered easing of the lockdown would engender a dangerous sense of complacency were made real over the past seven days. The extent of the lockdown breaches has by no means been catastrophic, but it’s been enough to drive home the lesson that small moves can have big implications – particularly when […]
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TUAIRIM – Gráinne Ní GHILÍN: Ná bímis inár dTost fán chiníochas
Fiú amháin agus páistí óga ag bréagthroid lena chéile, seasann siad siar láithreach bonn nuair a chluineann siad a gcéile comhraic ag béicíl, “I can’t breathe!” De réir scrúdú iarbháis neamhspleách a rinneadh ar George Floyd, fear dubh 46 bliain d’aois, is tachtadh ba chúis lena bhás. Dúnmharaíodh é. Agus sheas triúr fear péas de […]
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