When you’re a city person, sights like this can really surprise you. Rows upon rows of gnarled, old trees, branches heavy with big, awkwardly shaped apples. Dúlra was in the heart of the Orchard Country, but he was still surprised that people actually make a living from growing these fruit. And a good living, it […]
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DUP opposed anti-poverty strategy as well as welfare cuts
ON September 1 at a full Council meeting Sinn Féin proposed a motion asking the Council to oppose the Tory and DUP welfare cuts strategy. A majority of councillors supported the motion and it was agreed by Belfast City Council. Belfast City Council now stands opposed to the Tory and DUP strategy of attacking the […]
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Flegforce flatters to deceive as things stay just the way they are
HANDS up who remembers Billy Hutchinson’s cunning plan promise. Okay, now hands up who has ever managed to find out exactly what the cunning plan was. Thought not. Squinter’s been pondering for a while the apparent inability of unionists to do the things they say they’re going to do – Billy’s stirring response to the […]
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Memory narratives
AT the weekend an event, ‘Armed Forces Jobs and Trades Fair’, was held at the ‘King’s Hall, Belfast, the aim of which was to recruit young people and graduates; recruiting and training people with a technological skills base that, when all is stripped away, said and done, will be utilised for the purposes of death […]
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We hate loud music
ALL the news from the beating heart of Ulster loyalism. Camp Twaddell’s latest Twitter news as the battle for civil rights continues… That rebel music was so loud from Ardoyne we could hardly hear the boys outside playing the Famine Song – sorry, the Sloop John B. Go on home, sang the lead singer of The Druids. […]
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Coffee shop opens on top of the Black Mountain
If someone had said years ago that one day, someone will open a coffee shop at the top of Black Mountain, you’d have told them to get their head checked. Cafes are for towns and busy streets, the mountain top is for – well, a few scraggly teenagers and their dogs. No one else set […]
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