This morning, Belfast City Council launched its Marshall Plan for Belfast, a £150m investment package and a series of economic measures designed to put the city back to work.
Oscar hopeful can teach us all so much
In June 2010, a hurricane hit the New York-New Belfast conference in the shape of Oorlagh George, film producer and daughter of Terry (of Hotel Rwanda fame).
On the trail of the Rosetta Stone in NY
Chris Cahill, Director of the American Irish Historical Society – which boasts palatial headquarters on New York’s most exclusive stretch of real estate, Park Avenue – reckons that the person who cracks the way to link the Scots-Irish diaspora and the Irish American diaspora will have found the Rosetta Stone.
Brigid: A life lived for her community
When you’re young, everyone over 30 appears ancient, but it’s a fact that Brigid Hannon, who passed
As an image compels, a big lie is nailed
As others pored over the papers released by the British government in relation to the hunger strikes of 1981, I was in Dublin to visit the Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition ‘Civil Rights etc.’.
Norway’s lesson for those FF shysters
I meet councillors from North Belfast every day in the Dome of Delight, but on the Friday before Christmas I had occasion to roll out the red carpet for an Ardoyne representative with a difference.