A former Belfast student and Ulster University academic who’s now the Registrar and Deputy President of NUI Galway is urging students, parents and career advisers to rethink their attitudes when it comes to studying in the south. Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh spoke to Daily Belfast during a visit to his former school, St Mary’s Grammar […]
Archive | April, 2015
NUI Galway Registrar says new entry criteria open up the way for Belfast students to head south
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Vehicle damaged as explosive device is hurled at police in North Belfast
POLICE say a device thrown at a police patrol in North Belfast last night “detonated in the air”. No-one was injured in the attack – believed to have been carried out by dissident republicans – but a parked car belonging to a local resident had its windscreen shattered and was peppered by shrapnel. Chief Superintendent […]
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16 years on, Aisling Bursaries keep giving hope to young people in education
The annual Aisling Bursaries have just been launched, marking their 16th year helping local young people reach higher education. The 2015 bursaries were launched at the Devenish Complex, Finaghy, on Friday, with local business leaders, educators and bursary sponsors gathering to celebrate this year’s programme. The Aisling Bursaries are an education bursaries scheme delivered by […]
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Top barrister Mansfield will represent families at upcoming Ballymurphy Massacre inquest
Leading human rights barrister Michael Mansfield has been appointed by the Ballymurphy families to represent them at the forthcoming inquest into the killing of 11 people in the 1971 British army massacre. Mr Mansfield has represented clients in criminal trials, appeals and inquiries in some of the most controversial legal cases in Ireland and Britain, […]
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A ray of sunshine peeks through the millennia to light the secrets of Newgrange
It’s a regular occurrence at the mound on the hill: the arrival of busloads of chattering schoolchildren more interested in a day off than the Neolithic monument, which has, for millennia, confounded antiquarians, unnerved locals and sparked debate. Is it a tomb, an astronomical observatory, home of pagan gods, a passage between worlds? For centuries, […]
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SDLP and Sinn Féin welcome parade restriction while the Orange Order fumes
AN SDLP Councillor has welcomed the weekend decision by the Parades Commission not to allow an Orange parade to pass through the centre of Glengormley. The United Orange Districts Committee had planned to parade through the village next week in support of the Twaddell protest. The DUP in backing the parade said last week they […]
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