Unlike many businesses, local newspapers serving communities rocked by the pandemic didn’t have the option of shuttering operations during the lockdown – because they wanted to keep publishing to bolster the community during the emergency. The Belfast Media Group is proud to be among those publishers. In many countries and regions, the media is viewed […]
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OPINION: Government resources are finite but I hope it can support the most trusted medium of all in this crisis: newspapers
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EDITORIAL: After rocky start, Stormont finding its feet in Covid crisis
MONDAY was a milestone in the Covid crisis, as it was the first time since the first death in Ireland on March 11 that no deaths from the virus were reported on the island. But when the history of the pandemic in Ireland comes to be written, will it have been a positive milestone or […]
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One million steps challenge for Carly
A West Belfast woman is preparing to walk a mammoth one million steps all the while promoting and fundraising for two vital mental health awareness charity organisations. Lenadoon’s Carly Walsh told the Andersonstown News how she had been bereaved by suicide at the start of the year. Carly credited Downpatrick-based ALPS (All Lives Are Precious) […]
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Councillors warn youth on nitrous oxide canisters ‘craze’
NORTH Belfast councillors are warning over the dangers of young people inhaling nitrous oxide from canisters in a new ‘craze’. Large numbers of empty canisters of the potetially deadly gas, also known as laughing gas, have been found around Marrowbone Park on the Oldpark Road where large crowds of young people have been gathering, despite […]
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Mark Cousins, child of the Grosvenor and filmmaking genius on bathwater, bullying and a better Belfast
Mark Cousins is the hottest documentary filmmaker on the planet – though some might say he’s slowing up. For his latest epic, Women Make Film, an acclaimed homage to female directors tops out at just 14 hours. His last gargantuan effort, The Story of Film: An Odyssey consisted of 15 one-hour chapters. Regardless, he has […]
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OPINION – Prof Mike Tomlinson: North’s Covid-19 death rate significantly higher than in South by mid-May
Anyone see BBC Newsnight last Friday (22nd May)? Me neither. But I was tipped off to watch it on iPlayer as there was a package on how the Executive is managing Covid-19. The opening narrative was that the ‘power sharing Assembly’ (sic) had steered a clear path towards the resumption of contact tracing last week, […]
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