Dúlra’s got a crick in his neck today after spending an hour looking up at the sky, eyes stretched wide, waiting for a shooting star. He saw only two on Monday night – which on the one hand was a little disappointing, but on the other hand a rare treat. The meteor shower happens at […]
Archive | August, 2013
Put some money in the meteor if you’re waiting on this shower
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Martin closes local trilogy
WEST Belfast playwright and newly-appointed Belfast Ambassador Martin Lynch is planning to launch the powerful climax and final instalment of The Ulster Trilogy this September at the MAC. The trilogy, a series of three plays which explore the state of the North today, already includes Sam Millar’s ‘Brothers in Arms’ and Ron Hutchinson’s ‘Paisley and […]
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Morning after the night before a familiar sight
EIGHT arrests were made after violence erupted at a bonfire in West Belfast. A number of police officers were injured, two requiring hospital treatment, during trouble at what was billed as an ‘anti-internment bonfire’ in the Divis area on Thursday night. The arrests were made after the police came under attack with missiles, including paint […]
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Youngster picks up unexploded pipe bomb after barracks attack
ST OLIVER Plunkett Parish Priest Fr Martin Magill has called on those behind the double pipe bomb attack on Woodbourne barracks on Monday night to redirect their energy into ways and means that will “benefit everyone and harm no-one in our community”. Two pipe bombs were thrown at the barracks at around 10.30pm on Monday […]
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FELONS INSULT WAR OF WORDS
THE ORGANISERS of last Friday’s anti-internment march are calling it a success amidst claim and counter-claim about what took place at locations in West Belfast. Organisers claim thousands took part in the parade that made its way from North Belfast to Andersonstown to mark the anniversary of internment. Twice the parade was stalled as police […]
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Operation Banner swings into action
ALL Squinter did was highlight a fact. And that fact was that one weekend recently when Squinter visited the Saturday Woodvale protest the numbers were nowhere near the “thousands” reported on the BBC website. Perhaps one of the reasons that the numbers were not what they might have been, Squinter speculated, was that over in […]
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