WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has welcomed a government commitment to see the redevelopment of Casement Park. The New Decade, New Approach deal, which saw the restoration of the Assembly last week, contains an Executive commitment “to complete both the Regional and Sub Regional Stadia Programmes, including Casement Park”. The £110m redevelopment plans had previously […]
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‘Casement Park will be a good news story for West Belfast,’ says Paul Maskey MP
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It’s time to call a health emergency
SO let’s be clear. We deserve better Dr Michael McBride, Chief Medical Officer, says “there is no greater public health challenge than suicide prevention.” As communities across Belfast are in mourning following a weekend in which young lives were tragically lost, I would like to take this opportunity to call upon Dr Michael McBride, the […]
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Nicole starts New Year at home
NEWTOWNABBEY woman Nicole Adams has finally been allowed to return home after six weeks in hospital. We’ve been following the journey of cystic fibrosis suferrer Nicole (28) who last year won her battle for access to life-changing drugs. But Nicole was admitted to hospital at the end of November where her condition deteriorated after she […]
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Alex Maskey is new Assembly Speaker
WEST Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey has been appointed Speaker of the Stormont Assembly following the end of the three-year Executive close-down. Sinn Féin and the DUP re-entered devolved government on Friday after the two main parties supported a deal to restore the political institutions in the north following its collapse in January 2017. […]
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Ó Theanga Leipreacháin go dtí Acht Ghaeilge
I 1987, caitheadh amach as mo chéad chruinniú den Chomhairle i mBéal Feirste mé as Gaeilge a labhairt. Nó “teanga leipreacháin” mar bhaist Sammy Wilson uirthi. Mhuscail mé inniu agus Acht Ghaeilge ar an táirseach againn. Moill ró-fhada ach d’éirigh linn mar phobal Gaeilge ó Thuaidh tabhairt ar na húdaráis an tAcht a bhí geallta […]
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Ruby Murray play back on The Lyric stage
FOLLOWING its critically acclaimed sell-out run earlier this year, Ruby! about Belfast singing star Ruby Murray will return to Lyric Theatre in February followed by a countrywide tour. Written by Michael Cameron and starring Libby Smyth as Ruby Murray, Ruby! is an intimate, fact based one woman performance which celebrates Ruby’s life, music, triumphs, as […]
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