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Online June 26, 2018

Máire to leave Malone College after 19 years

TRYING to condense and sift through 19 years of teaching materials can prove quite the task but outgoing Malone Integrated College Principal Máire Thompson is doing just that as she tells this reporter that come August her journey with the College will have reached its end. Máire, who has taught at the Finaghy based College […]

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Online June 26, 2018

Falls Park event space set to welcome up to 10,000 fans for August Féile

ANOTHER significant piece in the Falls Park and City Cemetery Masterplan has been slotted into place with the imminent completion of a 10,000-person venue space. Work has been proceeding frantically at the event space, which is where the Féile Big Top tent once stood, as the countdown to the August festival gathers pace. Although the […]

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Online June 25, 2018

‘See you later kid’ – next thing internment came

In the run-up to the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest on September 10th we will be speaking to some of the families of the 11 victims about those three days 47 years ago that changed their lives forever FRANK Quinn was born on April 21 1952 at 2 Coates Place in Divis Street. He was one of […]

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Online June 22, 2018

A double goodbye to Mercy Primary

THE end of the school year marks the end of an era at Mercy Primary as two teachers with 55 years of service to the school take their retirement. Catherine Cush has served the school for 31 years, while her colleague Stella Hunt has taught there for 24 years. They have educated multiple generations of […]

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Online June 22, 2018