Community food bank volunteers in the Duncairn Culture and Arts Centre have been paying tribute to the public for their donations since the Coronavirus Crisis started. Nichola Bradley (pictured on our homepage), the powerhouse behind the initiative, has co-ordinated the relief effort over the past three weeks to help families left high and dry during […]
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Video Report: Families pay respects at memorial garden as Easter commemorations are cancelled
Families of IRA volunteers who lost their lives in the conflict have been paying their own private tributes to their loved ones. Traditionally, republican Easter parades take place in North Belfast on Easter Monday and Tuesday. However, with all public commemorations on hold, families of IRA members have been making their own private visits to […]
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Belfast doc returns from Berlin to join frontlines in Coronavirus battle
IT would be very difficult to sit back and ignore the spread of Coronavirus, says Dr Michael Moran, who has returned home from abroad to take up a post in the NHS frontline to play his part in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. Michael, a former Rathmore pupil, who was previously based in the Royal […]
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Dateline New York: A dispatch from the stricken capital of the world
OSSINING, NEW YORK — It’s Easter Monday, April 13. It’s precisely one month to the day since I took my last train ride home out of Manhattan. That was a Friday the 13th, and New York City’s luck was fast running out. It’s been running out every day since. When the time comes to look […]
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Video Report: Short Strand rallies in face of Covid-19 threat
WITH the Covid-19 crisis tightening its grip, the Short Strand community is going the extra mile to help the elderly and most vulnerable in the East Belfast district. Community leader Mairéad O’Donnell from the Short Strand Partnership said locals have been planning for weeks how the community would cope during the crisis. “We set up […]
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Watch: Basque community celebrates Fatherland Day under quarantine
In the Basque Country, Easter Sunday is celebrated as Aberri Eguna – Fatherland Day – and is traditionally an occasion for displays of patriotism and parades. This year, however, as the Coronavirus continued to ravage the tiny country sandwiched between France and Spain, locals under lockdown in the village of Lizartza brought the annual celebrations […]
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