OSSINING, NEW YORK — It’s Easter Monday, April 13. It’s precisely one month to the day since I took my last train ride home out of Manhattan. That was a Friday the 13th, and New York City’s luck was fast running out. It’s been running out every day since. When the time comes to look […]
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Video Report: Short Strand rallies in face of Covid-19 threat
WITH the Covid-19 crisis tightening its grip, the Short Strand community is going the extra mile to help the elderly and most vulnerable in the East Belfast district. Community leader Mairéad O’Donnell from the Short Strand Partnership said locals have been planning for weeks how the community would cope during the crisis. “We set up […]
Watch: Basque community celebrates Fatherland Day under quarantine
In the Basque Country, Easter Sunday is celebrated as Aberri Eguna – Fatherland Day – and is traditionally an occasion for displays of patriotism and parades. This year, however, as the Coronavirus continued to ravage the tiny country sandwiched between France and Spain, locals under lockdown in the village of Lizartza brought the annual celebrations […]
Marking the Rising in an era of lockdown – Tony Devlin reads the 1916 Proclamation
With Easter Commemorations across Belfast postponed due to the Coronavirus Crisis, we asked actor Tony Devlin to read the Easter Rising Proclamation for our readers. His reading is set against a series of pictures taken by our photographers at Easter commemorations over recent years. As an added Easter treat to get you through the lockdown, […]
OPINION – Dr Michael Donnelly: RHI was about chickens, this is about us
There was a Sars epidemic in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province some years ago and we have had H5N1, Swine and bird flu so the emergence of another Corona virus was no surprise to epidemiologists — but maybe was to those at Castle Buildings, Stormont. When the outbreak in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China became newsworthy […]
OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: In matters of life and death, let’s have the truth
One day it will be over but for now just accept it – it’s a mess! WHEN you’ve got a huge threat like the Coronavirus, which respects no border and no social rank, there’s a temptation to throw up the hands and say, “It’s a mess. One day it’ll be over but for now let’s […]