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Decision due on Casement in a month
WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has said that a decision on the planning application for the redevelopment of Casement Park could be reached in the next month. The £110 million redevelopment plans had previously faced setbacks due to safety concerns linked to the size of the stadium. Planning permission was granted for a 38,000 capacity […]
Playboy as relevant today as it ever was
One of the most iconic plays of Irish theatre has been reimagined for our times and received a standing ovation at the Lyric Theatre during its opening night. Running until November 2, JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World tells the story of Pegeen Mike (Eloise Stevenson) who is tired of her life, working in […]
Agreement reached in Glassmullin standoff
A groundbreaking agreement has been brokered to allow construction work to begin on a new sports facility at Glassmullin Green. Work was due to begin on the £1.6million project in August, but campaigners had occupied the green for over 50 days in a bid to block the development. Since 2013, Friends of Glassmullin Open Green […]
The great outdoors at a local nursery school
AIDAN Crean fully understands young people’s concern for nature and the future of our planet – in fact the west Belfast environmental supremo ‘got it’ well before anyone else did. When he was young and with the Troubles raging all around, nature and the environment weren’t high on many people’s list of priorities. But Aidan […]
Paul Thompson murder: inquest date edges closer
THE inquest into the controversial death of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson is expected to get under way next year. Dermott Hill Road man Paul (25) was shot dead by the UDA in a car in Springfield Park on April 27, 1994. A fence separating Springfield Park and the loyalist Springmartin estate had been breached shortly before […]
Fearless Woman book set to be launched in the Connolly Centre
A BOOK on the life and times of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington will be launched tonight, Thursday, in the James Connolly Visitor Centre on the Falls Road. Fearless Woman sees Margaret Ward revisit the complex and fascinating life of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, a pivotal figure in feminist, labour and nationalist movements in Ireland in the twentieth […]
Willkommen to the Cabaret
YOU cannot take your eyes off either actor or scenery – from Berlin border control to the hedonistic Kit Kat Club – in Bill Kenwright’s important and timely production of Cabaret. Idealistic writer Cliff Bradshaw (Charles Hagerty) disembarks from a train, boxed typewriter under his arm, keen to find inspiration and new adventures as Berlin […]
