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Small business profile: Apple Taxis on the Antrim Road are at the core of the community

KNOWN more recently as Antrim Road Cabs, the popular taxi depot has gone back to its roots of over 35 years ago with its new name. The taxi depot is owned by North Belfast businessman John Kelly, whose father founded Apple Taxis, and it has remained a family business ever since. For John, it is […]

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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Coalition government’s new politics is just old politics dressed up in media spin

ON Tuesday republicans buried our friend and comrade Bobby Storey. His death, after a long battle with illness, has left a void in all our lives. Big Bob was a larger than life character. For almost 50 years he was tireless in pursuit of Ireland’s long struggle for freedom. I was honoured and privileged to […]

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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: RTÉ aping its BBC betters shows how far we have yet to travel

I READ a newspaper column by Fintan O’Toole. In it he argued that the handling of the pandemic by the southern state had been a turning point. “If Covid-19 had struck the world even five years ago, one of the first questions on the minds of Irish officials would have been: what is Britain doing?” […]

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Happy 90th birthday to the Donegal man whose medical discovery saved millions of lives

SOME things happen by chance. In 1985,  two men, one from Japan and the other from Donegal, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of the anti-parasite drug  ivermectin. That was in 1978, but it was a few years later before the two men met. Nobel laureate William Cecil Campbell (known as […]

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OPINION – ELLY ODHIAMBO: Britain’s Natural History Museum must return skulls of African fighters taken as trophies

SCHOOLS should be allowed to independently decide the content of their history syllabus. If some schools prefer to give their primary and high school children an emphasis on Eurocentric history, so be it. This choice should be allowed for schools that are determined to prepare their students by teaching in-depth histories of the world, especially […]

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South Belfast SDLP MLA presses case for local newspapers with Minister Murphy

SDLP MLA Matthew O’Toole has met with Finance Minister Conor Murphy to raise the issue of support for local newspapers. The South Belfast representative had earlier called on the Executive to take urgent action to preserve the vital role of local and regional media in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. The Coronavirus crisis has […]

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