I feel for the students who have been finishing off their degrees over the last few months, particularly those needing access to studios or workshops to say nothing of the denial of having a physical degree show but Belfast School of Art has made the best of a difficult situation by having the degree show online. […]
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Meet lockdown fitness guru Oisín, Belfast’s Irish-speaking answer to Joe Wicks
Meet the Joe Wicks of the Irish language – Belfast’s Oisín Mac an Bhiocaire. Oisín has an army of fans for his weekly fitness classes streamed free on Facebook Live. And he knows what he’s talking about – the P4 teacher at Bunscoil Mhic Reachtain in North Belfast is also a part-time fitness instructor. “Yeah, […]
Andersonstown pharmacy scores national first with Express Locker pick-up for prescriptions
Picking up your meds just got a whole lot easier thanks to a Continental innovation which has been brought to West Belfast by Cooper’s Pharmacy. Express Locker is a tired-and-tested method of prescription collection in Holland, where fully one in three scripts are picked up through the system, but this is the first time the […]
End in sight for Unionist-designed Irish street name legislation which has echoes of Gerrymandering?
It’s almost 40 years since a Shaws Road man set out on a dark winter’s night to collect signatures from his neighbours for a petition urging Belfast City Council to allow him erect an Irish language street name outside his home on Rosgoill Park. That simple deed by Liam Andrews became the first effective challenge […]
Red Hugh O’Donnell – Uncovering Tirconnell’s missing hero
Early-modern Irish history is rarely the contentious bad-boy of academia or popular culture. In recent years the Great Famine, 1916 and the Irish War of Independence have tended to get the lion’s share of the print. However, on 22 May, news from Valladolid sparked sudden national (nay international) interest with news that Spanish archaeologists had […]
OPINION – LIAM MURPHY: Belfast has always had a proud anti-slavery tradition
Recent world events have deflected our attention from the Coronavirus pandemic. In a queue for a local Glengormley grocery store, I recently overhead two women discuss the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. “It would put ye in mind o’ here in 1969,” one of them said. “Aye, and I’ll tell you what, thon […]
Cervical cancer survivor warns women: Be aware of this silent killer
A BIG-HEARTED North Belfast mum-of-two is doing her bit for Cervical Cancer Awareness Week by warning women of the dangers of missing a smear test. Life had all but returned to normal for Vikkie Taggart (38) after a battle with cervical cancer ten years ago. But a missed smear test last year saw Vikkie plunged […]
Gerry Adams pays tribute to Bobby Storey: “one of bravest people I ever had honour to know”
Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has spoken of his “deep sense of personal loss and sadness” at the death of his friend of many years Bobby Storey. The former West Belfast MP and Louth TD described Bobby Storey (64) as “a stalwart of the struggle for Irish freedom for almost 50 years”. Bobby Storey […]
