A LOCAL estate agent is helping to house health workers on the frontline battling Covid-19 – for free. House to Home Estate Agents, based on the Antrim Road decided to do their bit during the crisis to reach out to doctors and nurses treating patients with the deadly virus. Catherine McDyre, from the small family-run […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Care home deaths report will reveal multiple clusters across 17 Belfast sites
When statistics relating to deaths in care homes are released for the first time tomorrow they will show multiple clusters across Belfast sites. A Covid-19 cluster is defined as two or more cases. The figures will also show that at least 17 homes in the greater Belfast area have reported outbreaks of Covid-19 among their […]
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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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Marking the Rising in an era of lockdown – Tony Devlin reads the 1916 Proclamation
With Easter Commemorations across Belfast postponed due to the Coronavirus Crisis, we asked actor Tony Devlin to read the Easter Rising Proclamation for our readers. His reading is set against a series of pictures taken by our photographers at Easter commemorations over recent years. As an added Easter treat to get you through the lockdown, […]
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