NEWINGTON Football Club Chairman Colum Burns has paid tribute to local football stalwart Martin O’Rourke, who passed away earlier this month. The 69-year-old is understood to have suffered a heart attack at his home. A three-time Cochrane Corry Cup winner with Malachians in the 1970s, O’Rourke was a popular and well-respected figure in North Belfast. […]
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LIVES REMEMBERED: Belfast footballing fraternity mourns Newington F.C. stalwart Martin ‘Sucksie’ O’Rourke
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Victims’ campaigner Gerry finds comfort and solace in his writing
THE shuddering jolt of a newspaper headline was the spark that Gerry Armstrong needed to pick up a pen and write his first poem. Thirty years on and the well-known victims’ campaigner is putting the final touches to an exhibition of his poetry, but he has also set sail on his most ambitious venture yet […]
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Health Department handling of Coronavirus crisis in care homes “disastrous”: Sheehan
A Sinn Féin MLA who sits on Stormont’s Health Committee has blasted the Health Department response to the Covid-19 crisis in care homes as “disastrous”. Pat Sheehan was speaking after Health Minister Robin Swann pledged additional resources for care and nursing homes which have been battered by the virus — one third of all Covid-19 […]
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Department of Health acts at last on care homes “but horses have bolted”
Belated moves by the Department of Health to shore up care homes which are proving the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic have been branded as an attempt to cover up for “procrastination and ineptitude”. “The care homes have become the killing fields of this pandemic in Northern Ireland,” said clinical epidemiologist Dr Michael Donnelly. “Yet […]
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LIVE IN CONCERT: From their Ligoniel living room to your lockdown home: Summer Fly live tonight 7pm
Ligoniel trio Summer Fly will launch the first BelfastMedia.com quarantine concert tonight (Sunday) at 7pm when they perform live from their living room to yours. Joey McGuigan and Karen Richardson with daughter Laura McGuigan are favourites with club and pub-goers across Belfast but once the coronavirus crisis restrictions were introduced they had to cancel all […]
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VIDEO & PHOTO REPORT: As Milltown reopens its gates, Fr Pat brings Blessed Scrament to lockdown homes
Milltown Cemetery welcomed its first visitors in a month today as the prohibition on visiting cemeteries, introduced by the Stormont Executive, was lifted. Diocesan authorities said the cemetery would open on Sundays from 10am-5pm and from 2pm-4pm on weekdays and Saturday but that the situation would be kept under review. Funerals will still be restricted […]
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