JOBS in the food service industry are renowned for being intense and testing but also equally exciting, therefore, having worked as a chef for 15 years West Belfast man Liam Mooney’s journey in the culinary world has undoubtedly been an interesting one. In April, he took up the head chef post at the Malone Lodge […]
The West Belfast chef making waves at the Malone Lodge Hotel
‘Emotional’ time for ’Murph families as Jackson appears
GENERAL Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the British army and a captain with the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment. will give evidence to the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest today (Thursday) at Laganside Court. During August 1971 General Jackson’s duties included briefing the media and journalists. His account that soldiers came under attack from […]
Boundary Commission “acted unfairly” on proposed constituency changes
SINN Féin MP Paul Maskey has welcomed a decision from the High Court which found that the Boundary Commission acted unfairly when it failed to consider responses to a consultation on proposed constituency changes. The new proposals published last year would have cut the number of constituencies from 18 to 17. In February, a Belfast […]
Pic of the day, Tuesday May 28
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Alliance Party secure best-ever result in European elections
A historic all female line-up will take their seats in the European Parliament after the count of last Thursday’s vote. The Alliance Party collected 170,370 votes, 115,000 more than the party received in the 2014 European election. The quota of 143,112 votes was not reached by any candidate. DUP’s Diane Dodds, who won the first […]
Timely staging of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Lyric
THEY told me to take a streetcar named Desire,” says self-designated southern belle Blanche DuBois, who stands neat as a pin in her vivid green suit, heels and ‘merry widow’ head dress as the Lyric audience is transported to the stifling heat of the 1950s New Orleans Latin Quarter. Blanche, who “taught school”, is someone […]


