A video circulating on social media shows PSNI officers being abused as they try to break-up a VE party in a loyalist area of Belfast on Friday. Among the taunts shouted at the cops who say they are in the area to impose Covid-19 restrictions “to prevent people getting sick”, were: “Fuck away off round […]
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WATCH: Covid rules cops told to ‘f**k off to Falls Road’ when they challenge VE street party
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Lives remembered: Brigid was an ‘amazing mummy’ and a proud Sailortown woman
BRIGID Hamill (née Harris) died peacefully at Brooklands Care Home on April 29 after suffering with Alzheimer’s disease, aged 83 years old. Born and reared in Little York Street in Sailortown, Brigid was “very proud” to be from the area. She spent her working life as a stitcher and also helped out in St Michael […]
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Seven days on and still waiting… employer unable to apply for Coronavirus test for key worker
The West Belfast employer of a key worker has been waiting a full week to apply for a Coronavirus test for their member of staff, after the worker’s partner tested positive for Covid-19 last Saturday. Both the employee and partner have been following strict government guidelines and have been self-isolating since May 2. However, the […]
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TUAIRIM – GRÁINNE NÍ GHILÍN: Dlúthpháirtíocht síoraí le muintir na Gaeltachta
Buail ar an nasc thuas le héisteacht le Gráinne Briseadh croí ag cuid mhór déagóirí a bhí san fhógairt a rinneadh cúpla seachtain ó shin nach mbeidh cúrsaí ag dul ar aghaidh an samhradh seo sna coláistí Gaeltachta. Cuirfidh an laghdú ioncaim brú airgeadais ar mhná na dtithe agus ar ghnónna áitiúla fosta. Is beag […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Bobby Sands remained unbroken and unbowed
IT was in Long Kesh, in Cage 11, that I met Bobby Sands. I don’t remember exactly the first time we met but it was almost certainly at one of the discussion groups I set up when I arrived there in 1975. There were around eighty of us in Cage 11. For those of you […]
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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: Data dilemma as Covid-19 Apps are rolled out
IT is two years since information-harvesting and sharing for commercial and political purpose by internet giants was exposed. Sadly, the scandal caused barely a ripple and did not change online behaviours, despite the evidence. Oxford University research found in 2018 that Facebook receives third-party data from 43 per cent of apps, Twitter 34 per cent, […]
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