A Belfast business leader who launched a successful fundraising appeal for supplies for frontline health workers – which has raised almost £100,000 – says the failure to carry out Covid-19 testing of medical staff as they finish shifts is “scandalous”. And Danny Moore, who heads up international tech company Options, also blasts the authorities for […]
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West community champions band together to support vulnerable during Coronavirus Crisis
A West Belfast-based support group has brought together a wide range of local volunteers including healthcare workers, shop employees and teachers to offer practical assistance to a community which has been rocked by the Coronavirus crisis. Teacher Rachel Armstrong and friend Rachael Braniff, founders of the Covid-19 Community Support (West Belfast) Group, have already attracted […]
Beech Hall Centre designated as Coronavirus assessment hub
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has set up a Coronavirus assessment centre in West Belfast. Beech Hall Health and Wellbeing Centre on the Andersonstown Road has been designated as a Covid-19 assessment centre to ensure that there is sufficient capacity in the health system to deal with the anticipated increase in demand for those […]
New partnership for the Belfast Irish Milers meet
THE Belfast Irish Milers Meet in Association with Kinetica will take place on Saturday, June 20 from 1pm-5pm at the Mary Peters Track. The event will be co-hosted by Beechmount Harriers, West Belfast Coolers and the Irish Milers Club, bringing together three huge names of the local athletics’ scene. Eamonn Christie, Race Director of the […]
OPINION: Andrée Murphy – Women Will Do Politics Differently
When Michelle O’Neill paused in her answers to the Stormont chamber this week, she reflected heartfelt concerns in these days of uncertainty. Jim Allister had asked her about his constituent, a woman of 32 years with a young child, whose treatment for cancer has been upended as the Health Service tries to meet the challenges […]
Outpouring of support and solidarity for community hero Niall Murphy as he battles Coronavirus
A torrent of goodwill messages will flood in tomorrow (30 March) for leading human rights solicitor and United Ireland campaigner Niall Murphy who is gravely ill after contracting the Coronavirus. Friends of the North Belfast man, who is chair of Naomh Éanna GAA club and a founder of the neighbouring Gaelscoil Éanna, have asked the […]
SQUINTER’S SIDEWAYS LOOK AT THE WEEK: Is this your car, sir? and other ways to ’embrace the spirit of Northern Ireland’
AS the Covid-19 crisis deepened and Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and certain members of our newly-reconvened Executive decided that a policy of letting eight people out of ten contract the coronavirus was not a good idea after all, it was time for a rethink. Cometh the hour, cometh the woman, and as people watched fearfully […]
Mater Hospital Coronavirus hub is ready for surge says Emergency Department consultant
AN Emergency Department Consultant at the Mater Hospital says frontline health workers are ready to deal with the upcoming surge in Covid-19 patients. The Belfast Trust this week designated the Crumlin Road hospital as the main site for treating Covid-19 patients. Dr Eoghan Ferrie, Emergency Department Consultant at the Mater, stressed that many people who […]
