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Innovative thermometer set to transform Health Service

AN innovative non-contact medical thermometer is set to transform the NHS with an entrepreneurial spark born out of the e3 campus in West Belfast. The thermometer, a brainchild of TriMedika’s Dr Roisin Molloy and Julie Brien, is the only EU-designed and built device on the market. Roisin explained how the device, which can read and […]

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Tears behind the laughter at the MAC

PATRICIA Gormley is a woman of many talents. At the age of 40 and after raising her four children she went to Queen’s University and studied English Literature and Politics alongside two of her daughters. She taught English to mature students, then went into working with the elderly and that’s where she discovered her talent […]

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Key funders visit Market Tunnels

A DELEGATION of top politicians has been shown plans for the ambitious new Market Tunnels and taken on a tour of the eagerly anticipaetd regeneration project. After 70 years of dereliction, the eight disused railway tunnels known as the Lanyon Tunnels,that run below East Bridge Street in Belfast will be developed to develop jobs and […]

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Appeals for return of stolen defib

THE theft of a lifesaving defibrillator from an Ormeau Road convenience store have led to calls for the vital device to be returned. The £2,000 machine is thought to have been taken from the Vivo premises on the lower Ormeau in the early hours of Monday morning. The defibrillator was paid for by the local […]

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Youcef (11) dances up a storm in top event

COMPETITORS from around the globe are gathering this week at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall for the 2016 Oireachtas Rince na h-Éireann/All Ireland Irish Dance Championships. The week-long Irish dance event, which is the highlight of the Irish dancing community, is organised by An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha and is expected to bring in excess of 1,600 […]

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West Belfast singer Bap Kennedy dies

WEST Belfast singer-songwriter Bap Kennedy has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 54. Heartfelt tributes have poured in for the former Energy Orchard frontman, who passed away on Tuesday evening. A notice on his Facebook page read: “We are devastated to announce that Bap passed away this evening. Bap was extremely brave until […]

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