JOHN Garrity is a familiar face to many around Belfast city centre, entertaining shoppers with his on-street busking. Originally from Enniskillen, the 28-year-old has made Belfast his home ever since returning from a spell in America and next month is set to headline a gig in the Empire with companion Jonathan Cariaga in a duo […]
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From street busker to Empire headliner
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Sophia’s appeal for hormone treatment
A WEST Belfast transgender woman has launched an appeal to raise vital funds for her hormone replacement treatment. 21-year-old Sophia Coligan has been on waiting lists for almost six years and has been left languishing by our local health service. In order to get the treatment she needs, she must raise £1,000 to see a […]
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If you want to get ahead get a hat
I LIKE hats. And caps. I have quite a nice collection of headwear, worn and aged, like myself, dispersed between Dublin and Belfast, Donegal, the car boot and all the places in between. It used to be customary for men to wear headware. Look at any old photos. Dunchers and flatcaps galore. Peaky blinders in […]
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Bringing the best of Irish music to the Waterfront Hall
THE guy who cut the ribbon on the Waterfront Hall back in 1997 would have been pleased with the TG4 Gradam Ceoil tour de force on Sunday past. For he once declared that “there are few responsibilities more absolute than those which flow from custodianship of a language and culture”, adding that society is “immeasurably […]
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My diabetes pain is coming to an end
ANYONE who has met me on occasions when I have talked about diabetes awareness will probably think, jeez, he talks about it like he has been struck by lightning. Surely, he is milking it! Yes I do talk a lot about diabetes and people respond with utter ignorance. I remember one of my former jobs […]
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Chemist strike will have ‘huge impact’
A BELFAST pharmacist has blamed “chronic” underfunding and workforce pressures for the upcoming industrial action at community pharmacies. At a closed meeting in Belfast on Monday, 98 per cent of community pharmacy contractors in attendance voted for the action. The meeting was attended by 95 contractors representing 418 pharmacies across the north. Community pharmacists say […]
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