One of Belfast’s biggest Credit Unions, Clonard Credit Union, has announced a cut in their interest rate to 7.5% until the end of June in a move designed to help members through the Covid-19 crisis The Credit Union has implemented a series of measures to support their members in the past few weeks. Chief Executive […]
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Clonard Credit Union launches initiatives to support members through Covid-19 Crisis
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OPINION – LIAM MURPHY: Soundbites as smokescreens to hide governments’ Covid shambles
AS I drove down the Antrim Road last Saturday on what was my first car journey of more than a mile I listened to Raidió na Gaeltachta. I must admit that I don’t understand all that I hear but I ‘get the gist’ of most of it. I choose this station because of the wonderful […]
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Giovanni’s rolls out new pizza takeaway with plans to open as restaurant post-crisis
MAMMA Mia! There’s a new Italian restaurant in town and it is causing a lot of excitement in North Belfast and beyond. Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant opened on Clifton Street last Friday night after weeks of tickling the tastebuds on social media. The brains behind the family-run business is Ryan Lindsay who has named his new […]
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UPDATED COVID CRISIS TIMELINE: As lockdown restrictions are eased, testing and tracing are stepped up but without cross-border collaboration
Almost every mis-step made by the Health Department and the Stormont Executive in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic was a direct result of following the lead of Boris Johnson and his advisors in No. 10 Downing Street. One of the heroes of the pandemic, Dr Gabriel Scally, the Belfast-born-and-bred President of the Epidemiology and Public […]
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OPINION: British have torpedoed legacy payments scheme by targeting victims of state collusion
For anyone who cares to peel back the veneer the matter of who funds a payments scheme for the injured isn’t the only issue to be resolved In 2019 Relatives for Justice made a submission to an NIO consultation on the need for a payments scheme for those injured during the conflict. In our response […]
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‘It has been such an honour to be mayor of Belfast’
NOT sitting comfortably – but rather “walking and talking” during the blistering last week of May – outgoing Lord Mayor Danny Baker tells the Andersonstown News that he got “stuck in” to the role of First Citizen in what has been a whirlwind six months. The Sinn Féin Colin Councillor took over the mayoral chain […]
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