The Ulster Unionist Party candidate running for the West Belfast parliamentary seat says young people from Andersonstown are joining the party. Bill Manwaring said it is not just in unionist areas where the party is attracting new members but in nationalist areas too. Speaking to Daily Belfast, the Shankill man said the party is finding […]
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Young people from republican areas are joining the UUP, says West Belfast candidate
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A mother’s anguish as sick internet troll targets terminally-ill child
An internet troll has targeted the social media account of a terminally-ill Belfast toddler just one week after the 22-month-old suffered a cardiac arrest. The parents of Caoilte Fitzsimons, who suffers from the rare genetic muscle wasting condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), received the sick message on Easter Sunday as they were preparing to take […]
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An Englishman in New Barnsley: Tory West Belfast candidate visits Easter parade and tells us he’ll canvass everywhere
The Conservative Party candidate running for the West Belfast Westminster seat says he is prepared to canvass the whole of the district and will be “sensitive” to historic anti-Tory feeling in the area. Paul Shea, one of 11 candidates the party is running across the north, also rejected claims that the decision not to field […]
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Recovery? What recovery? Belfast businessman says traders are struggling to soak up water charge hike
A Belfast business owner has dismissed Tory electioneering claims that the economy is in recovery and accused the government of putting the squeeze on small traders. Chairman of the Antrim Road Traders Association Paul Carlin said that small businesses were still feeling the strain of reduced spending and hit out any additional forms of “taxation”. […]
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NI’s first pagan priest speaks of his hopes for pre-Christian religion
A Belfast shamanic healer has become the first pagan priest to be certified by the authorities since the time of Saint Patrick. Patrick Carberry, who’s based in Glengormley, applied to Stormont five months ago to be certified as a holy man and officials have now got back to him to say he can now carry […]
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Dissident groups “are not the IRA”
The largest Easter Rising parade in Belfast has been told dissident republicans have “no right” to continue their campaigns. Addressing several thousand people attending the National Graves Association commemoration in Milltown Cemetery, West Belfast, yesterday, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly rejected any comparison between the groups and the IRA. “There are small groupings within the […]
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