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Christopher looks to the future at Newington CU

HAVING studied drama at Queen’s University, a younger Christopher McBride could hardly have imagined he would one day become a Director at Newington Credit Union. However, the 29-year-old accountant’s thespian ambitions exited the stage when he realised he “couldn’t do accents”. He good-humouredly reflects on his lack of accomplishment in that department as a skill […]

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Church leaders meet Stormont politicians

LEADERS of the Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist churches in Ireland have held talks with Stormont parties in the latest attempt to break the political deadlock. British and Irish Ministers including Secretary of State Karen Bradley also attended the meeting on Tuesday. The delegation of church leaders told the Stormont parties it was time to […]

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Former paratrooper breaks down during Ballymurphy inquest

A former paratrooper has described as “psychopaths” some soldiers based alongside him in West Belfast during the Ballymurphy Massacre. Soldier M597, who was a member of A Company, broke down in tears on Monday as he said that “rogue soldiers” were “out of control” and “shot innocent people”. He said he was in the Henry […]

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Clonard Rector prepares to bid farewell to parish “like no other”

“I’M not going to Timbuktu, I’m going 45 miles down the road,” laughs Clonard Rector Fr Noel Kehoe, who is preparing to leave the West Belfast church for the latest chapter of his vocation in the parish of Dundalk. A familiar and popular face to the Clonard faithful – as well as to the tens […]

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