It’s almost 40 years since a Shaws Road man set out on a dark winter’s night to collect signatures from his neighbours for a petition urging Belfast City Council to allow him erect an Irish language street name outside his home on Rosgoill Park. That simple deed by Liam Andrews became the first effective challenge […]
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End in sight for Unionist-designed Irish street name legislation which has echoes of Gerrymandering?
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Red Hugh O’Donnell – Uncovering Tirconnell’s missing hero
Early-modern Irish history is rarely the contentious bad-boy of academia or popular culture. In recent years the Great Famine, 1916 and the Irish War of Independence have tended to get the lion’s share of the print. However, on 22 May, news from Valladolid sparked sudden national (nay international) interest with news that Spanish archaeologists had […]
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OPINION – LIAM MURPHY: Belfast has always had a proud anti-slavery tradition
Recent world events have deflected our attention from the Coronavirus pandemic. In a queue for a local Glengormley grocery store, I recently overhead two women discuss the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. “It would put ye in mind o’ here in 1969,” one of them said. “Aye, and I’ll tell you what, thon […]
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Cervical cancer survivor warns women: Be aware of this silent killer
A BIG-HEARTED North Belfast mum-of-two is doing her bit for Cervical Cancer Awareness Week by warning women of the dangers of missing a smear test. Life had all but returned to normal for Vikkie Taggart (38) after a battle with cervical cancer ten years ago. But a missed smear test last year saw Vikkie plunged […]
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Gerry Adams pays tribute to Bobby Storey: “one of bravest people I ever had honour to know”
Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has spoken of his “deep sense of personal loss and sadness” at the death of his friend of many years Bobby Storey. The former West Belfast MP and Louth TD described Bobby Storey (64) as “a stalwart of the struggle for Irish freedom for almost 50 years”. Bobby Storey […]
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GERRY ADAMS: Bodenstown Sunday has put down many’s the marker for republican strategy
Like the Easter commemorations earlier this year this Sunday’s Bodenstown ceremony will take place online (www.sinnfein.ie). Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD, who has previously spoken at Bodenstown on three occasions, the last in 2018, will give this year’s keynote address. The Coronavirus restrictions make it impossible to hold the normal event with its […]
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