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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: The unspoken public discourse rule: your dead are fair game, but never ours!

Click link above to listen to Andrée AT the weekend there were two Twitter exchanges that were worth noting for unspoken rules regarding public conduct. The first occurred on the anniversary of the killings at Loughgall in 1988. Those SAS extra-judicial killings and ambush are viewed very differently across our community spectrum, but at the […]

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TUAIRIM: Más mall, is mithid – An chéad mhórfhoclóir Gaeilge ó 1959 le foilsiú

Buail an nasc thuas le héisteacht le Gráinne Tá dea-scéala ann an tseachtain seo a chuirfidh gliondar ar gach gráthóir Gaeilge faoin spéir, scoláirí agus saoithíní go háirithe. Tá an ‘Concise English-Irish Dictionary’ curtha chuig na clódóirí san Iodáil ag Foras na Gaeilge agus beidh 8,000 cóip ar an mhargadh faoi thús na scoilbhliana nua […]

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OPINION – ELLY ODHIAMBO: Thanks to PSNI, My Hate crime attacker gets to write a letter, I get to attend A&E

LAST Friday was a normal day at work. I work in mental health support services. I clocked off at 9pm, had an hour’s break before starting a second shift from 10pm to 7am Saturday morning. So, I decided to head on to a supermarket. Mission: to buy a sandwich for work. When I got there, […]

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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: Lectures from Leo on food bank photo-ops should be taken with pinch of salt

Thank you Johnny a great video put together. Showing how our Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey was well received within Strabane today ?? Posted by Michaela Boyle on Friday, 15 May 2020 SO, should Sinn Féin ministers in the north  have posted images of themselves delivering food parcels to vulnerable and elderly people? Well, no, not if […]

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Vaccines, Bill Gates, global conspiracy decried by lockdown protesters in Ormeau Park

They came after a call from the so-called UK Freedom Movement for a mass protest against the coronavirus lockdown but their complaints went way beyond the restrictions which forbid public gatherings. Global conspiracies involving Bill Gates and the World Health Organisation were cited by the Ormeau Park protesters as reasons why they opposed the lockdown […]

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Experts lay it on the line at Stormont Health Cttee: If you have all-island policy to protect animals, why not humans?

Against the background of the Chief Scientist calculating R from minimal data for every scenario on Nolan (would you buy wine which might be 7.9. then 4.9 and not less than 1.00 no matter how young  or the calculator?), the Health Committee met at Stormont yesterday to hear from real experts. Firstly, Sian Griffiths from […]

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