A community drugs campaign launched last month in the Waterworks with a mass rally is to campaign for a dedicated treatment centre for addicts. At a meeting held last week it was agreed that a petition would be started to make the authorities confront the growing problem in North Belfast. Over the summer heroin dealers […]
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Sean to ‘move a mile for muscles’
A YOUNG boy from West Belfast is doing his bit to raise money and awareness for muscular dystrophy. Nine-year-old Sean McKinney from Cullingtree Road is walking to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK. Sean was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy just before Christmas 2010. The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group of inherited genetic conditions that […]
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Bred and buttered in Belfast city
FOODIES along with city historians united under wet skies on Saturday for Kabosh Theatre Company’s Belfast Bred walking tour of the city’s cuisine haunts from past to present. Our band of early morning risers converged outside Belfast’s oldest deli, Fountain Street’s Sawers, were we met with “chef Barney” whose mission was to get our help […]
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Féile an Phobail’s unique history explored
Renowned as one of the most dynamic and unique community festivals in Europe, Féile an Phobail, is the subject of an ambitious and groundbreaking new research project based in Queen’s University Belfast. As Féile prepares to celebrate its thirtieth year in 2017, the research team aim to chart the extraordinary history of West Belfast’s innovative […]
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Richard goes in to bat for our flying mammals
WHAT have bats ever done for us? Perhaps not a question one has ever asked before, but the answer is quite a lot. For example, did you know that without them there would be no chocolate or tequila – such is their important role as pollinators in the Americas? Closer to home their healthy appetites […]
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God bless Frank O’Connor
THE treasured short stories from the prolific pen of Cork’s finest scribe Frank O’Connor are returning to the Lyric Theatre this month due to unprecedented demand. In God Bless the Child, Frank O’Connor’s stories of life growing up in rural Ireland are universally regarded as classics of their kind and in a coup for the […]
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