SHORT Strand Community Centre hosted a special Chinese New Year celebration this week in conjunction with the Chinese Welfare Association and the centre’s children’s playgroup.
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Now we’re bottom of league in the North for child poverty
West Belfast is the most deprived district in the North when it comes to child poverty, according to a new report. The rate of child poverty in the area stands at 46 per cent, making it the fourth worst in a survey of all of Westminster’s constituencies.
Council does its job and now moves on
BELFAST City Council has emerged relatively unscathed from a week of bickering which brought back unfortunate memories of a Dome of Delight which in effect brought little joy to the populace.
Go on and get your Granny a goat for Christmas
What a world, eh? People being laid off, shops shutting up shop, the air thick with the crunch of bankruptcy. Even the Christmas trees are looking smaller and sadder this year. But if it’s bad here in the North it’s worse in the South. When a government has to break the budget bad news into bite-size chunks and feed it to the public in instalments, you know things are bad, bad, bad.
Union Jack days numbered at City Hall?
THE FLYING of the Union Jack at City Hall could be reduced to just 18 days a year, if new recommendations are adopted by Belfast City Council
Last man hanged in Ireland 50 years ago
Fifty years ago Robert Andrew McGladdery secured a unique place in the history of Ireland when he became the last man to be executed on the island. McGladdery was hanged in Crumlin Road jail on the morning of December 21st 1961 after he had been found guilty of the brutal murder of nineteen year-old Pearl Gamble.
