THE family of little Dáithí Mac Gabhann are celebrating after learning that their son has made the shortlist for the annual British Heart Foundation’s Heart Hero awards. It was discovered during a routine 20-week scan that little Dáithí’s heart had not developed as it should have and it was found that the now two-year-old toddler […]
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It’s double delight for little Dáithí
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‘The pen is mightier than the sword’
Address by Father Martin Magill at the funeral of Lyra McKee at St Anne’s Cathedral. May I speak in the Name of the Living God. First of all, I want to thank Dean Stephen Forde for his kind invitation to give this reflection today. I have no idea what you Sara, Lyra’s partner must have […]
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Helping those in need through the legacy of John Hewitt
SET up in September 1984, the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre (BURC) is a charitable organisation whose aims and objectives are to provide support, education, training and facilities to the unemployed and other groups suffering from social and economic disadvantage. The organisation was formed in a period remembered largely for an economic recession coupled with the […]
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Paddy and Nigel taking success in their stride
SINCE he first took up his guitar and hit the stage back in July last year, West Belfast internet sensation Paddy Rafferty has been selling out venues across the city. Fans of the Brooke-based Paddy ‘Raff’ have lapped up his BT9 alter ego ‘Nigel’ in online sketches such as ‘Nigel at the Christmas Market’, ‘Nigel […]
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Pic of the day, Thursday, April 18
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Taking the Crooked Glen to Crumlin
THROUGH a process of Anglicisation, Crumlin is among the thousands of Irish towns and areas whose place names are virtually lost in translation. Situated in Antrim’s hills, the Crumlin derives its name from the Irish ‘An Cromghlinn’, meaning The Crooked Glen, which is the name adopted by one the town’s most exciting new pubs. Headed […]
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