A BELFAST councillor is to bring forward a motion to City Hall calling for the installation of a permanent monument outside the Assembly Rooms in the city centre ahead of the arrival of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in August.
AS FORMER senior PSNI officer Jon Burrows prepares to take over the leadership of the UUP uncontested, he will be fully aware of the huge challenges that face him. Or at least we think he will be, because Mr Burrows is so fond of an arresting soundbite and accompanying picture that it is sometimes hard to tell what lies beneath the bluster and blow.
A COUPLE who tragically died following a road traffic collision in Crumlin radiated love for one another, mourners were told at their funeral on Wednesday.
THE first person to sail around the world without stopping returned to the city of his grandmother this week to urge Belfast to host the Clipper Round the World Race in 2028.
A LOCALLY-based early intervention project for families has welcomed a delegation from the Oireachtas Committee on the Good Friday Agreement to its main Northern project office in Poleglass.
IT is not even the end of January and the sold-out signs have already gone up for this year's SPAR Craic 10k, highlighting once again, if it were needed, the popularity of the event.
MONDAY evening saw Celtic’s higher-ups reportedly meet with manager Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney in what has been dubbed an emergency meeting by the Scottish press in the midst of a vital transfer window.
