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Nay-sayers can still make things tough

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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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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.’.

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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.

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