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Donohoe Family say social media platforms seeking answers to Noah’s disappearance do not have family permission

In a statement this afternoon, the family of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohoe have said they are working with the PSNI “on matters which are outstanding to the investigation” but that social media accounts seeking information about the disappearance and death of Noah do not have their permission.     The family said: “We the family of […]

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Kennedy Centre makes it 20-in-a-row with continued support for college bursary scheme

AS they celebrate 20 years of the Aisling Bursaries, the West Belfast Partnership Board have announced the continued sponsorship of the Kennedy Centre. John Jones, Centre Manager of the Kennedy Centre, said: “Yet again the Kennedy Centre is delighted to be involved with the Aisling Bursaries. The Bursaries epitomise all the positive values of the […]

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TUAIRIM: Forbairt tithíochta i Ráth Chairn dochrach don Ghaeltacht

“I recommend that permission for the proposed development be refused.” Sin a scríobh cigire de chuid an Bhoird Pleanála ina thuarascáil i mí na Bealtaine faoin phlean 28 dteach agus teach aíochta a thógáil i sráidbhaile beag Ráth Chairn i nGaeltacht na Mí. Ach rinne an Bord Pleanála neamhaird de mholadh a gcigire féin. Thug […]

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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Coalition government’s new politics is just old politics dressed up in media spin

ON Tuesday republicans buried our friend and comrade Bobby Storey. His death, after a long battle with illness, has left a void in all our lives. Big Bob was a larger than life character. For almost 50 years he was tireless in pursuit of Ireland’s long struggle for freedom. I was honoured and privileged to […]

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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: RTÉ aping its BBC betters shows how far we have yet to travel

I READ a newspaper column by Fintan O’Toole. In it he argued that the handling of the pandemic by the southern state had been a turning point. “If Covid-19 had struck the world even five years ago, one of the first questions on the minds of Irish officials would have been: what is Britain doing?” […]

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Happy 90th birthday to the Donegal man whose medical discovery saved millions of lives

SOME things happen by chance. In 1985,  two men, one from Japan and the other from Donegal, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of the anti-parasite drug  ivermectin. That was in 1978, but it was a few years later before the two men met. Nobel laureate William Cecil Campbell (known as […]

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