A FIERCE dance battle has emerged online between two Sinn Féin colleagues during the Covid-19 lockdown – with thousands of viewers tuning in every Saturday night. West Belfast MP Paul Maskey and Lord Mayor Danny Baker have been using the popular Tik-Tok app to perform quirky dance routines with family members at home. The idea […]
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Saturday Night Fever – but not as we know it
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Brookland’s care home hero Patricia relives her Covid-19 nightmare and warns public: “stay home”
A WEST Belfast care assistant says we are “not over” the Covid-19 pandemic yet after she contracted the virus herself. Patricia Brown from Brooklands Care Home has been forced to stay at home after she tested positive following a test at work. Her daughter, Chloe Lavery (21) who also works at Brooklands also caught the […]
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WATCH: St. Michael’s Youth Club Supports Frontline Workers
YOUNG people and staff from St. Michael’s Youth Club have created an inspirational video in support of frontline workers. By utilising online technology during lockdown, the club have put together a special lip-sync rendition of Love Inc.’s 90s dance hit ‘You’re a Superstar’. The video also features NHS inspired artwork, motivational quotes, and clips of […]
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Little Rossa pedalling for vital PPE
An Irish school pupil is doing his bit to raise much needed funds to purchase vital PPE for hard-pressed staff and volunteers at the NI Hospice. Folks how amazing is this young lad❤Rossa asked his mum what he could do to help the Doctors and Nurses to raise… Posted by Daniel Baker on Wednesday, 6 May 2020 […]
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Eimear’s grieving family to host birthday balloon party in aid of cancer charity
THE father of a young West Belfast cancer battler, who passed away last year, is to host a charity balloon race on his daughter’s birthday. In a bid to raise funds for the Cancer Fund for Children, Seán Smyth, whose daughter Eimear Gooderham (née Smyth) died on the 27th of June 2019, is asking participants […]
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Republican stalwart Jim Scullion, led IRA prisoners in Long Kesh in seventies, laid to rest
Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of lifelong republican Jim Scullion this week. The 78-year-old passed away on Saturday following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. While making efforts to maintain social distancing, mourners lined the streets of Turf Lodge as Jim’s tricolour-draped coffin made its way to Milltown Cemetery. Arrested in 1972 for […]
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