A 50-year-old gold coin depicting Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, has been sold at an auction house in North Belfast for more than £3,000. The rare 22-carat coin, issued in 1966 to mark the 50th anniversary of the rebellion, was brought to Belfast Auctions in Duncrue Industrial Estate by […]
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Sellers thought solid gold 1916 coin was brass
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From Bloody Sunday to Belfast Lord Mayor: SDLP grandee Alban calls it a day
He may have announced his plans to step down after three decades in politics but the daily workload for Alban Maginness shows no sign of letting up. The outgoing MLA has agreed to sit down on a wet Friday morning to discuss his career in politics but a murder has taken place in the early […]
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New SDLP leader’s thinking on Brexit is a bit of a curate’s egg
I FIRST encountered Colum Eastwood when he was Mayor of Derry. My son was over from London for some charity-related awards in Derry’s Guildhall, and I remember being impressed and puzzled by Mr Eastwood. Impressed by his warm and easy manner, puzzled as to why a young lad like him wasn’t out having a livelier […]
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Sinn Féin battered by Storm Giro while unionists broker a place in the sun
2015 – the Year of the Big Storm. The Welfare Reform Storm. Storm Giro, we’d probably call it, if Giros existed any more. Which they don’t? Do they? Squinter was broadly sympathetic with Sinn Feín’s stated aim of safeguarding the needy and the vulnerable, and if indeed the DUP did show bad faith then they […]
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City Cemetery and Shankill Cemetery feature in new TG4 series
TOM Hartley and Máirtín Ó Muilleoir are just two of the local faces that make it on to Ar Shlí na Fírinne, a new six part series for TG4 that’s set to broadcast this weekend. The series takes an entertaining look at Ireland’s history of war, revolution, art, music, industry and culture from the unusual […]
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Music studio opens in Belfast
MORE than 600 disabled people will now be able to compose and perform their own music, thanks to a new state-of-the-art studio and ensemble workshop on the Springfield Road. Drake Music NI’s new premises in West Belfast will enable it to double the number of people it works with using its unique computer music technology. […]
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