Joby Fox, the well-known local musician and founder of Folktown, has just arrived on the island of Lesbos, driven by a desire to help desperate refugees still arriving there in numbers. Here’s his first blog… I have just pulled women and children and men from the sea, in the dark in stiff winds, from […]
Archive | October, 2015
Why I found myself on the rocks on a Greek island pulling people from the sea
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Easter 1916 commemoration programme launched with speeches and drama at City Hall
Belfast’s commemorations of the 1916 Rising should be inclusive of all communities – that was the key message at the launch of the programme of events to mark the centenary yesterday at City Hall. Former Sinn Féin Belfast Lord Mayor and local historian Tom Hartley, who is Chairman of the 1916 organising committee, described the […]
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St Vincent de Paul makes a Titanic effort to raise money for their vital work
A gala dinner is set to be held in Titanic Belfast to raise vital funds for St Vincent de Paul’s work in local communities and further afield. Recent statistics have revealed that there are 26 per cent of children living in absolute poverty in the north – and that’s something that St Vincent de Paul […]
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Police investigating pigs’ heads at a Belfast church as a hate crime
Police are treating as a hate crime the placing of two pigs’ heads at a disused Belfast church. The heads were found at the double front doors of St Luke’s Church of Ireland in Northumberland Street near the West Belfast peace line. Racist slogans had been daubed on the heads. Loyalist social media sites have […]
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After 42 years, family still battling to find out who shot their six-year-old boy
Relatives for Justice are appealing for anyone who has information about the murder of a six-year-old child in Belfast to come forward. A commemoration was held in Turf Lodge last Sunday for young Jim Doherty who was shot and killed in 1972. Hundreds of people attended the unveiling of a memorial to Jim at the […]
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Eastwood in Belfast to launch challenge to McDonnell SDLP leadership
YOUNG pretender Colum Eastwood brought the fight for the SDLP leadership to his opponent’s door last night, launching his campaign on the boundary of Alasdair McDonnell’s South Belfast constituency. The Foyle MLA was backed by a host of leading party figures at a gathering in The Hive, a social enterprise on the Grosvenor Road near […]
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