ONGOING investment in Divis and Black Mountain for a range of environmental and visitor improvement projects underway across the site has been welcomed.
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.”
BELFAST'S new Lord Mayor has called on everyone to come together this summer and put on the best of our city as it prepares to welcome visitors for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.
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.
A FEW weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was agreed in April 1998 I brought a delegation of the Board of Governors of Bunscoil Phobail Feirste on the Shaws Road in West Belfast to meet the British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam.
CLANMIL Housing have expanded its partnership with Foodstock charity to bring the Free Breakfast Club for children to the Curzon apartments on the Ormeau Road in South Belfast.
WHILE the upcoming Fleadh Cheoil is a much welcomed development for Belfast, for those of us with short term lets in our community it also brings a sense of dread. In my small inner city community of tightly packed two up two down terraced houses there are eight short term lets. None of them have planning permission to operate as short term lets. Last year I reported one operating in my street to Planning NI and Tourism NI . Nothing has been done. This very busy short term let is still operating at full tilt and it still does not have planning permission.
