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Andersonstown News February 16, 2012

Resilience a recurring theme, from Conamara to Ground Zero

That great hero of Conamara, Seán Ó Coisdealbha, was in the Cultúrlann on Saturday to launch his new poetry anthology Stadhan. A veteran troublemaker – in the best sense of the word – and the dynamo behind some of the best community ventures in the Gaeltacht,

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Andersonstown News February 13, 2012

Hopeful straws in Council wind

They are just straws in the wind and it could be nothing more than Stockholm Syndrome after spending seven

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Andersonstown News February 3, 2012

Nay-sayers can still make things tough

This morning, Belfast City Council launched its Marshall Plan for Belfast, a £150m investment package and a series of economic measures designed to put the city back to work.

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Andersonstown News January 27, 2012

Oscar hopeful can teach us all so much

In June 2010, a hurricane hit the New York-New Belfast conference in the shape of Oorlagh George, film producer and daughter of Terry (of Hotel Rwanda fame).

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Andersonstown News January 19, 2012

On the trail of the Rosetta Stone in NY

Chris Cahill, Director of the American Irish Historical Society – which boasts palatial headquarters on New York’s most exclusive stretch of real estate, Park Avenue – reckons that the person who cracks the way to link the Scots-Irish diaspora and the Irish American diaspora will have found the Rosetta Stone.

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Andersonstown News January 13, 2012

Brigid: A life lived for her community

When you’re young, everyone over 30 appears ancient, but it’s a fact that Brigid Hannon, who passed

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Columnists February 17, 2012

Terms of justice should not be left to victims

Al Hutchinson, who is no longer officially our Ombudsman but is keeping the seat warm until his successor is installed, has stirred the pot of the past in recent days.

Andersonstown News February 16, 2012

A time for great rejoicing?

GENERAL hilarity erupts in West Belfast, firstly at news that Rangers had applied to go into administration; secondly, at news that they had indeed gone into administration; and thirdly, that the inevitable 10-point docking had taken place.

Andersonstown News February 16, 2012

Why snack lovers are getting that old sinking feeling on this 100th anniversary

AWAY from the Occupied Six-Counties fry, another staple food of Noel ’n’ Alan was in the spotlight this week. In the research and development wing of Tandragee Castle, Tayto have…

Andersonstown News February 16, 2012

Chemical fly in the oinkment

A CORRESPONDENT – ‘Pig-Ignorant’ – texts the paper this week complaining about some bacon he bought for his Saturday morning fry-up. He’s unhappy first of all about the fact that the bacon had an irridiscent sheen when he removed it from the packaging

Andersonstown News February 16, 2012

Resilience a recurring theme, from Conamara to Ground Zero

That great hero of Conamara, Seán Ó Coisdealbha, was in the Cultúrlann on Saturday to launch his new poetry anthology Stadhan. A veteran troublemaker – in the best sense of the word – and the dynamo behind some of the best community ventures in the Gaeltacht,

Columnists February 15, 2012

Bitsa ramblings on travel – both time and otherwise

In the mid-90s I briefly took a break from playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 and worrying about who would win the musical face-off between Blur and Oasis to watch children’s television.