TO understand today’s music scene in West Belfast you have to go way back to brass, reed and silver bands. There were 13 children in our house, a sure sign you were from the Falls during the 70s, and St Peter’s Brass and Reed Band and St Paul’s Silver Band featured prominently in our lives. […]
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Defib lesson well learnt
A NEW defibrillator has been installed at Stewartstown Road’s popular Coffee House Bistro. And the life-saving equipment is now on the doorstep of the surrounding businesses and shops. Owner of the Coffee House, Jim McIlwaine, explained how a medical emergency in the coffee shop on a busy Saturday lunchtime was the inspiration for the new […]
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Pic of the Day, Thursday, July 25
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Reaching new musical heights at the Earagail Arts
THE Earagail Arts Festival runs every July and brings a wealth of talent to Donegal’s Wild Atlantic Way. The festival has been running this year from July 10 and will wrap up its calendar of events for another year on Sunday, July 28. With Belfast’s love affair with Donegal well established, what was once a […]
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Fears that flight school dream could crash
A YOUNG Lagmore man who has obtained a place at a prestigious flight school in Cork has told how he is unable to borrow tuition fees for the course because he is from the North of Ireland. After a gruelling three years of effort and setbacks, 21-year-old Caolán McGarry was accepted to the Atlantic Flight […]
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Pic of the Day, Wednesday, July 24
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