Click on audio file above to hear Andrée Murphy read this week’s column. AS this Coronavirus takes hold and the weather warms up it feels like a terrible thing that this will be an Easter like no other. But hold on. Actually? In some senses it will be a bit like most Easters were […]
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OPINION – Andrée Murphy: An Easter like no other, but there will be other days to remember
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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of expected ‘Surge’, hero staff move into Brooklands care home
AHEAD of this week’s anticipated surge in Covid-19 cases, care workers in West Belfast are preparing to move into nursing homes 24/7 to help protect elderly residents. The move comes as it was confirmed that there are cases of Covid-19 in 20 care homes across the North. Staff at Brooklands Nursing Home in Dunmurry are […]
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OPINION: Thoughts turn to Kenyan childhood as Coronavirus divides communities and Continents
IT is difficult to imagine even one clap of applause for the shut down. It has done what relationships gurus couldn’t try if they were asked to. It has definitely repaired many a family squabbles bringing tranquility I would imagine where there was no possibility for that. Businesses, places of worship, schools, restaurants and pubs […]
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We could be heroes….
All has changed in Belfast in the space of a short few days. We have learnt more about ourselves and about our neighbours and are the richer for it. At every turn, we hear echoes of other trying times when backs were to the wall and a battered and fearful community felt it had no-one […]
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Bad news for lockdown kids, good news for parents as Partnership delivers home-school iPads
The West Belfast Partnership Board has handed over its educational store of iPads to a local community group to ensure children confined to the home during the Coronavirus emergency can continue their learning. Angie Mervyn, Education Programme Manager with the Board said the group teamed up with staff from Beechmount’s Blackie River Centre to distribute […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Care home heroes face escalating Covid-19 emergency
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases increases in care homes and nursing homes across Belfast, there have been appeals for workers and residents in the care home sector to be treated on a par with hospital staff and patients. “There is heroism in our care homes today as dedicated staff look after residents […]
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