A TEN-year vision for Upper Donegall Street as a thriving, sustainable and inclusive gateway between Belfast city centre and North Belfast has been launched.
WEST Belfast Irish language community and youth organisation Glór na Móna have launched a 'Community Brick’ campaign in a bid to raise additional funds for a new community and youth centre.
ANTRIM Ladies Senior Football panel have been announced as the newest sponsor from West Belfast based sporting goods store, Bourke Sports ahead of their 2026 All-Ireland campaign.
THERE was a time when younger people I used to bump into would say to me by way of introduction “You used to know my Mammy.” “Or my Daddy.” Nowadays they say to me “You used to know my Granny.”
TUV North Antrim MLA Timothy Gaston has been giving off again about the ‘IRA shrine’ at Long Kesh. He’s unhappy that around 40 grand a year is being spent to maintain the site, even though 40 grand a year wouldn’t cut the grass at Stormont.
They say never meet your heroes. And that may well be true in many cases but I have been lucky to tto come to know one lifetime hero who has surpassed my hopes for what she might be.
George Bernard Shaw didn’t think much of teachers: “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches”. Mark Twain wasn’t behind the door either: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” And then there are those great lines Paul Simon sings in ‘Kodachrome’: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school/ It’s a wonder I can think at all.”
ONGOING investment in Divis and Black Mountain for a range of environmental and visitor improvement projects underway across the site has been welcomed.
