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Online March 28, 2018

‘Priest in the Jeans’ Fr Gary features in new BBC NI film

FORMER Holy Cross parish priest Fr Gary Donegan is to feature in a new BBC documentary about his life to be shown tonight (Wednesday). ‘Priest in the Jeans’ tells the journey of the Passionist priest, from growing up in Fermanagh to a 16-year spell as rector of Holy Cross church in Ardoyne. Stephen Nolan talks […]

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Online March 28, 2018

Labour MP to push for equal marriage in the north

A LABOUR MP will introduce a bill at Westminster later today calling for same-sex marriage to be legalised in the north. Conor McGinn, who was born in County Armagh, is the current MP for St Helen’s North in Merseyside. A similar private members’ bill was brought before the House of Lords on Tuesday and passed […]

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Online March 27, 2018

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Online March 27, 2018

The more things change the more they stay the same

MARKING the 50th anniversary of the civil rights struggle in the north, Martin Lynch’s latest work asks if we are still striving for those rights in the present day? We’ll Walk Hand in Hand charts the lives of two working class students from Belfast. They meet at University in 1967 and soon find themselves at […]

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Online March 27, 2018

Sectarian assault victim discharged from hospital

A 14-year-old who suffered severe head injuries in a sectarian attack in North Belfast has been discharged from hospital. Robert Holmes was attacked with sticks near the interface at North Queen Street on Saturday night. PSNI Detective Sergeant Keith Wilson said it was reported that “three males with sticks attacked the boy while a crowd […]

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Online March 22, 2018