Daily Belfast lensman and part-time daredevil Thomas McMullan found himself making the news when he was officially the first patient to be treated at the new casualty unit in the Royal Victoria Hospital. The keen motorcyclist came a cropper on his bike last week at Mallusk during heavy rain, breaking his collarbone and suffering bruised […]
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How our photographer painfully made history at Belfast’s new A&E
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Luncthime at Ashers – praise the Lord and pass the firecracker sub
LUNCHTIME on Thursday and Squinter finds himself in town on a mission so pointless and banal that its details need not detain us here. Plenty of options for a tightener, of course, with countless establishments offering quick and convenient fare for the city’s workers, who are out in their numbers on a balmy late summer […]
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In the Windy City, Ireland’s fifth green field is bursting with energy and vitality
Visiting the Irish American Heritage Centre in Chicago? Then allow yourself a half-day. For the three-storey, 90,000 square foot centre – housed in a former college – is the nation’s largest Irish American facility. A reception room that can seat 300 at a gala dinner. Check. A 650-seat theatre. Check. A fully-catalogued library (more expansive […]
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East meets West for a Van the Man Songbook sensation
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in association with Féile an Phobail is set to host a very special evening of music to celebrate the work of one of Belfast’s all-time finest singer-songwriters, Van Morrison. Ahead of his seminal concert as part of Eastside Arts Festival on Belfast’s legendary Cyprus Avenue, musicians Anthony Toner, Ken Haddock, Matt […]
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Hidden story of historic tragedy is revealed to world by Jewish immigrant and Irish American academic
a story which was made in America: how a Jewish immigrant who built a business empire on frozen bagels helped his Irish neighbours tell the untold story of the great calamity which had shattered their nation and scarred their history. But it’s also a story about how one resolute Irish American, raised in the Bronx […]
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Who’s for a bracing breakfast beer?
SQUINTER’S dandering along the lower Grosvenor Road at around 10am on Monday in warm summer sunshine when a couple of Herberts hove into view. They’re probably in their mid-60s, but since they’re both necking cans of Carlsberg at breakfast time, you can understand that there’s every possibility they’re a good bit younger. They’re not falling […]
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