Pupils create new eye-catching characters to promote mental health message

YOUNG people from Blessed Trinity College in North Belfast have helped reimagine an important mental health message to others using eye-catching characters.

St Dominic's pupils showcase ideas during Dragons' Den event

Year 9 pupils at St Dominic’s recently got a chance to showcase their  creativity, teamwork and entrepreneurial talent during an inspiring one-day enterprise challenge delivered in partnership with Hatch Coffee Shop and the Innovation Factory.

Irish American support played crucial role in forcing British to ban Orange Order parade

Relieved residents of the besieged Garvaghy Road were jubilant on Friday night when word came through that the British Secretary of State had banned the Orange Order from marching through the nationalist area. 

Gaelic Games: JHC - Paddies are crowned Junior champions after Belfast derby win over Lamh's

West Belfast teen Shea McGarry to put pen to paper with Glasgow Celtic

THE idea of playing professional football is a dream that every young boy is mesmerised by in their youth and the reenactments that you see of the top stars across every playground within the city and beyond is a testament to the love affair that we all have with football.

Frustrachas rochtana do dhalta Ghaelchúrsaí

Tá bean óg a fhreastalaíonn ar an choláiste ghairmiúil Gaelchúrsaí i ndiaidh litir a scríobh chuig duine a pháirceáil a charr os comhair rochtain na gcathaoireacha rotha don choláiste.

JUDE COLLINS: Drumcree is the opposite of what works with parades

Dr Samuel Johnson had a way with words, while at the same time being a right old eighteenth century misogynist.  On being asked his opinion of women preachers, he replied: “Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all”.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: My return to the Biggest Show in the Country was never going to end well

COMETH the hour cometh the apology. And the corrections. And the clarifications.I checked out of the Nolan Show some years ago because of the relentless negativity. I didn’t do it for the sake of my mental health, but I was gratified to find that mornings that began without that gulp-inducingly portentous intro and without the screeching of cats being thrown over a clothes line with their tails tied together are more pleasant and mind-kind by a factor of Jesus-how- tf-did-I-ever-stick-that?

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Micheál Martin out of step with the Garvaghy unity of purpose

Whatever you might think of them, it would be hard to argue against the assertion that Sinn Féin’s MaryLou McDonald and, especially, Michelle O’Neill have not put a toe wrong over the past two weeks. In touch with their constituencies and the national mood, they asserted a new politics into an old argument. At once they defended the people of the Garvaghy Road and managed to keep their obligations to their respective parliaments, and not flinch in the face of unionist and media hostility. If Sinn Féin come out top in next year’s Assembly elections, many will point to this fortnight as a significant factor. And Mícheál Martin appears to be seething.

It's over! Secretary of State bans Orange march from Garvaghy Road

The Orange Order march down the Gravaghu Road will not take place as the Chief Constable has asked the Secretary of State to review the Parades Commission determination to allow the Drumcree march to go ahead.