BY TIARNÁN Ó MUILLEOIR t.omuilleoir@belfastmediagroup.com PEOPLE Before Profit Councillor Gerry Carroll has announced he is to run in the upcoming Westminster election in West Belfast. The local representative for the Blackmountain Ward says he aims to “offer an alternative to the parties of austerity”. “All the main parties are in agreement that austerity has […]
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Carroll vows to take on ‘austerity parties’
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School and community come together in a Model of good practice
A unique concept transforming the use of closed spaces in North Belfast for the benefit of the community is continuing to reap rich dividends. The North Belfast City Learning Centre, based at the Model School for Girls and Boys, facilitates the use of the school’s state-of-the-art facilities on evenings and at weekends. The facilities are […]
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Celebrating the life of ‘Home Rule Harrison’, a forgotten British war hero and Parnell lieutenant
As an Oxford-educated Protestant landowner and Member of Parliament who was decorated for bravery in the First World War, Henry Harrison was fairly typical of the unionist aristocracy who represented Ireland in the British House of Commons in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But Henry differed from the social circle in which he […]
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Cartoon art tells the history of a forgotten decade
South Belfast historian Barry Sheppard is to showcase the fascinating political art and cartoons of a forgotten decade at this year’s Spring Festival in Belfast. Barry is a post-graduate of Queen’s University Belfast where by he studied the art and politics of 1930s Ireland in great detail and it is this period on which […]
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Fox News star in hot water over 1984 Divis Flats claim
A long-gone blot on the Belfast landscape has been hurled into the centre of a growing international row that could threaten the future of one of the United States’ top broadcasters. Irish-American cable news presenter Bill O’Reilly – the biggest name in the Fox News galaxy of stars – has come under fierce pressure […]
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Search is on for lost treasure in campaign to bring back the Floral dance
A campaign to restore one of Belfast’s most iconic buildings has taken a sparkling twist as campaigners search for one of the derelict venue’s lost treasures. Volunteers working to secure funds that would bring the Floral Hall at Bellevue back to its former glory are on the search for the venue’s famous glitter ball. Once […]
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