FIRST Minister Michelle O’Neill, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, and Health Minister Mike Nesbitt visited the Mater Hospital in North Belfast to show solidarity with healthcare workers following recent reports of threats, intimidation and racist attacks against staff.
Until recently, Ireland was a net exporter of its people. Poverty, hunger, political repression and lack of opportunity scattered Irish emigrants throughout the world created a vibrant diaspora and multiple ‘Irelands beyond Ireland’.
If you think a week is a long time in politics, then what can one make of the five days between our newcomer communities being feted at the Best of the West Awards on Friday past and black and brown people being burnt out of their homes last night?
THE community sector in West Belfast and beyond came together in a defiant act of solidarity with ethnic minority families across the city subject to intimidation from racist thugs this week.
OVER the past number of months, my ramblings on a weekly editorial piece and on the social media X, often follow the same moans and complaints about the running of Glasgow Celtic.
