WEST Belfast MLA Gerry Carroll brought a jar of toxic, blue-green algae water from Lough Neagh into the Assembly chamber on Tuesday as he challenged Executive Ministers to face up to the crisis they created.
KEY partners and stakeholders involved in delivering the Comhaltas Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 have met this week to reflect on the success of the event and discuss opportunities to build on its legacy, ahead of Belfast hosting the All-Ireland event again in 2027.
NATIONALIST residents’ groups who were formed at the height of tensions surrounding loyalist parades through nationalist areas in the late 1990s, have warned that a parade down the Garvaghy Road in Portadown this weekend could lead to the unravelling of their own deals with the Loyal Orders in their own areas. The Orange Order has applied to march down Garvaghy Road on Sunday. The last parade through the nationalist district took place in 1997. In the late 1990s several high profile loyalist murders were linked to Orange Order attempts to march along the Garvaghy Road.
THE Antrim Senior Football Championship saw a terrific weekend of knockout football action as the quarter-finals took place with eight teams battling out for the final four spots as well as claiming a seeding in next season's group stage draw.
IN a nameless supermarket in a nameless city beginning with L ten miles south of Belfast, Squinter is ambling towards the bread section when he spots a Secret Service agent.
SEVERAL weeks ago British PM Andy Burnham sparked a furious debate over future constitutional change and Irish Unity with his crass comment that it was “off the table”.
BUTTER is a concentrated source of milk fat which is mainly composed of saturated fat. Too much saturated fat can increase bad cholesterol which is a risk factor for heart disease. Recommendations for saturated fat are no more than 20g per day for females and 30g per day for males.
