A job club established by two Presbyterian churches in North Belfast is offering unemployed people support in their attempts to get back into work. The club, based at the top of the Cavehill Road in a former estate agent’s office, has been running from January and volunteer Trevor Long said their door is always open […]
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Presbyterians living the Gospel as they offer hope to North Belfast unemployed
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Objections to escape movie part of unionist desire to ‘bury’ history
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly says he believes unionists want to bury certain historical events of the Troubles after complaints were made about a forthcoming film on the 1983 Long Kesh escape. Mr Kelly, who was a leading organiser of the break-out which saw 38 IRA men overpower prison officers and make their escape, said […]
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Liam Murray Cup goes from strength to strength
THIS year’s annual Irish language school’s football tournament ‘Corn Liam Uí Mhuirí’ – the Liam Murray Cup – will take place tomorrow, Friday. The Liam Murray Cup is held each year to honour the memory of Liam who played Gaelic football and hurling for St Paul’s GAC and was a former pupil of Bunscoil Phobal […]
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New local project gives hope to young homeless
YOUNG people living in the Simon Community’s Belfast Foyer in the South of the city have launched an exciting project exploring their experience of what it’s like to be young and homeless. The young people, all aged between 18 and 21 years, launched the project in their new-look common room which was styled and furnished […]
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Local nano-brewery set to offer a refreshing sup of Divis Diva and Derriaghy Darling
“BEER is like cooking, it’s all about trying different recipes,” says Speckled Hen proprietor Martin Caldwell, who is about to launch his own Black Mountain Brewery ales and lagers. “The smallest breweries are labelled as micro, well ours is nano, it’s even smaller,” he laughed.” The popular Derriaghy pub, which has collected a host of […]
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Local family so proud of grandfather’s war record
His official war medal shows him as Captain Seamus Nolan and, befitting a war hero, a representative of government was dispatched to pay tribute at his funeral when he was buried in the early 1970s. Captain Nolan lived his whole life in the New Lodge and could legitimately claim to be one of the few […]
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