THOUSANDS of republicans from across Belfast and further afield turned out to remember their dead in a series of Easter parades and commemorations over the weekend. Large crowds lined the Falls Road, where children waved tricolours, to welcome the main National Graves Association Parade on Easter Sunday. The largest of all the parades, the annual Milltown
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Sporting invites make for a good start
Getting on the whirlimagig at City Hall has been much more geographically challenging than my first outing back in the late eighties.Then I represented West Belfast and I insisted on getting my passport stamped and nosebleed tablets delivered before I ventured into any other part of our great city.
The beating art of the city
I always feel a bit queasy when watching these cool sex education classes on TV where the teacher puts a condom over his/her head. But I suppose it has that unwatchable/unmissable quality Bill Wolsey was looking for when he suggested putting a 19th century condom on an appropriately shaped 21st century prop and popping the lot in the front window of Zara.
Cú Chulainn window installed at City Hall
A NEW stained-glass window inspired by the tale of Cú Chulainn and the Cattle Raid of Cooley from Irish mythology has been fitted at Belfast City Hall.
That sinking feeling over Titanic’s 3D premiere
IT WAS a huge maritime success, drawing admiration from across the globe and stunning those who saw it up close.
HE ‘throwing money down the drain’ over shower
A disabled North Belfast woman with no washing facilities in her flat since she moved in eight weeks ago said the Housing Executive is “throwing money down the drain” by having her assessed by an Occupational Therapist. Housing campaigner Angie McManus moved into her Carlisle Parade flat two months ago after being rehoused from her home in the New Lodge Seven Towers.
