THE countdown and the wait is officially over as the annual Clonard Solemn Novena got underway today, Friday. As we reported last week, the event, which attracts 15,000 worshippers to Clonard’s historic monastery and gardens each day during nine days in June, will be celebrated in a very different way this year. Due to the […]
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Special nine days begins at Clonard Novena
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50 Years On, we remember Antrim hurler who was first victim of Falls Curfew
Patrick (Paddy) Elliman was the oldest of the four people who were killed during the Falls Curfew in July 1970. The 62-year-old father of four was fatally wounded after being shot in the head by soldiers near his Marchioness Street home. At around 11pm on the 3rd July the district was quiet and Patrick, dressed […]
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Stormont Executive told to Pay Up or Shut Up by Nurses – Dr Michael Donnelly watches in on the last Health Committee Meet
In a week when Ireland won a seat on the UN Security Council and Belfast Greens might decide the next Taoiseach outside of the Albany, Boris decided to downgrade some of his medical experts by trumping a forty-year-old drug as a breakthrough. This may have been to disguise the fact that the much trumpeted App would […]
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BREAK A LEG AND GET PAID FOR IT: Brassneck Theatre company to fund uni scholarships
THE West Belfast Partnership Board are offering at least two Aisling Bursaries for young people to study the arts thanks to a kind sponsorship from Brassneck Theatre Company. Now in its 20th year, the Aisling Bursaries are an education bursaries scheme delivered by the West Belfast Partnership Board to enable students to access further and […]
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VIDEO REPORT: Primark throws open its doors as lockdown restrictions ease
Hundreds of people queued along Castle Street in the city centre today to access the first day back in business for Primark. But it wasn’t exactly business as usual. Masked assistants stood at the doors to admit queueing customers as others left the popular city centre store. There were also signs outside the store enforcing […]
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Boxing returns as ‘new normal’ takes shape
THE ‘new normal’ – a term that that has slipped into our everyday conversations is no less real than it has become almost tiresome. Whether it is transport, shopping, work or our downtime, it’s widely accepted that the old ways of doing things are gone and perhaps may never return as we once knew. That […]
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