WORKERS at Belfast leisure centres are to be balloted on strike action in pursuit of a six per cent pay rise. Unite the Union will ballot its members at 12 Council-owned leisure centres, which have been under management of Greenwich Leisure Limited since January 2015. The union is calling on local political parties to bring […]
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A Night To Remember ….in August
THEATRE-goers will enjoy A Night in November in August as part of the Féile an Phobail drama line-up. Marie Jones’ play, directed in this 2019 interpretation by her son, Matthew McElhinney charts the story of dole clerk Kenneth Norman McAllister, a Protestant who has always followed the rules and has “cleanly discriminated” against Catholics throughout […]
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Sailin’ away on the crest of a wave
TO understand today’s music scene in West Belfast you have to go way back to brass, reed and silver bands. There were 13 children in our house, a sure sign you were from the Falls during the 70s, and St Peter’s Brass and Reed Band and St Paul’s Silver Band featured prominently in our lives. […]
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Pic of the day, Monday, July 29
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Our common bond with Kenyan struggle
IN the early eighties, the formulation of the weekly Andersonstown News editorial followed a strict procedure. Séamus Mac Seáin, polymath and printer who wrote no other material for the people’s press would call the staff, such as it was, into the editorial room — formerly the living room of a flat above shops on the […]
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Pic of the day, Saturday, July 27
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