A LOCAL councillor has praised the community effort behind a successful food bank in the Bawnmore area. Five weeks ago, Sinn Féin councillor Taylor McGrann set up the facility at Millgreen Youth Centre to manage a community response to the Covid-19 crisis and help those in most need. Speaking about the operation, Taylor said: “Along […]
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Bawnmore steps up to help needy during Covid-19 crisis
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VIDEO: Google 60-second film salute to Irish frontline health workers and volunteers
A video tribute to Ireland’s health workers and volunteers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic has been created by internet giant Google. And it features two images which will be familiar to our readers — solicitor Niall Murphy raising his fist defiantly as he is wheeled from the Intensive Care Unit at Antrim Area Hospital and the […]
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SPECIAL VIDEO REPORT: Big Seamy sings the praises of the Hills of Hannahstown
One of Belfast’s best known GAA clubs has teamed up with on one of the country’s favourite entertainers to record a video to help lift club spirits during the current lockdown. Popular Belfast singer and musician Seamy McPeake recorded a version of the Goats Don’t Shave hit ‘Hills of Donegal’ but this time changing the […]
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Virus claims life of a Covid fundraiser
A NEWTOWNABBEY woman raised over £4,000 for health service charities after setting up a donation page just days before she died from Covid-19. Catherine Fox was due to celebrate her 69th birthday last Saturday, but was taken to Antrim Area Hospital after becoming unwell and struggling to breathe. Her birthday fundraiser for NHS Charities Together […]
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LIVES REMEMBERED: Belfast footballing fraternity mourns Newington F.C. stalwart Martin ‘Sucksie’ O’Rourke
NEWINGTON Football Club Chairman Colum Burns has paid tribute to local football stalwart Martin O’Rourke, who passed away earlier this month. The 69-year-old is understood to have suffered a heart attack at his home. A three-time Cochrane Corry Cup winner with Malachians in the 1970s, O’Rourke was a popular and well-respected figure in North Belfast. […]
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Department of Health acts at last on care homes “but horses have bolted”
Belated moves by the Department of Health to shore up care homes which are proving the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic have been branded as an attempt to cover up for “procrastination and ineptitude”. “The care homes have become the killing fields of this pandemic in Northern Ireland,” said clinical epidemiologist Dr Michael Donnelly. “Yet […]
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