There is a gripping scene in Brick City, a HBO documentary about the inspirational young mayor of crisis-hit New Jersey city Newark, Cory Booker, in which a school principal berates pupils who condone a murderous gun attack on their classmates. “This is not normal,” he part-blasts, part-beseeches the sullen pupils.
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Aisling’s Aisling is our new city story
BELFAST is a fast-changing city. The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in the Waterfront Hall at the weekend gave compelling evidence of that. However, like so many aspects of post-Good Friday Agreement society, it’s not changing half-fast enough.
UUP death-rattle echoes across the chamber
IF EVER there was a sign from the heavens that the unionist game was up in City Hall, it came in these memorable words from our youthful Lord Mayor
Tourist product needed for the 21st century
IN TALLINN, Estonia, they have a graphic Museum of the Occupation on the basis that visitors to the Baltic capital will want to know about that little country’s fight against
Who’ll give a leg-up to those young Protestants?
Put it down to naiveté, but I am horrified by the fact that no children from Taughmonagh Primary School go on to university. And I think it’s not good enough for Belfast
