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Jail/bail diary of Master Jamie

Day 1. I can’t believe my fellow Ulstermen clamped me in chains and brought me here to Maghaberry. It’s bad enough they’re beating us off the streets in East Belfast – now they’re locking us up too. Rabbie Burns got it right when he wrote, ‘Was it for this the Wild Geese cast the grey […]

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Seafarer so good for Tony

“I would have been attracted to any part written in this play, the writing is first class,” says West Belfast actor Tony Flynn who stars in  The Seafarer which is playing to packed houses at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. In the life-affirming production, which sees the devil drop by for a game of Christmas Eve poker, […]

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Prime time role for West actress

Viewers of this week’s gripping BBC crime drama, Shetland, would have recognised the familiar tones of one of the main characters standing out among the Scottish accents. West Belfast actress  Claire Rafferty starred as Anna in the two-part series that was shown on prime time TV on Sunday and Monday evenings. Last October and November […]

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Flag protests – your super A to Z guide

A is for anger Everything that has happened in Belfast and elsewhere since December 3 2012 has been motivated by anger. The loyalist people are angry and the main reason for their anger is that nobody seems to know what they’re angry about. Every loyalist spokesman says something different from the last when asked why […]

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All sweet at the Sweety Bottle

CRAZY ESCAPADES and calamitous situations are what West Belfast audiences can expect when they take their seats at the Roddy McCorley club for a taste of The Sweety Bottle. What started life as a series of nostalgic short stories in the Andersonstown News caught the eye of Artistic Director of the Brassneck Theatre Company, Tony […]

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Bringing sensitive subject to the stage

A West Belfast writer and director is attempting to tackle the delicate issue of suicide through her latest play. Bronagh Diamond, from Lenadoon, is preparing to stage the controversially titled Hang In There at the Cultúrlann next month as part of Féile an Earraigh. Despite the content, the young and extremely talented writer says she […]

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