FORMER DUP Councillor David Clarke, who says he faced bullying of such severity within the party that he ended up in hospital, has finally found a place of serenity. He’s now sipping green tea in a political Zen garden where the only sound is bamboo chimes tapping playfully in a light breeze and the gentle distant hum of Buddhist mantras: He’s joined the TUV.
THE BROTHER of a West Belfast man whose inquest was dramatically halted after an intervention by the Secretary of State and Chief Constable is asking, “What are they hiding?”
IRISH language indie rock band The Shan Vans have been featured on America's biggest radio station – National Public Radio (NPR) – where the lads spoke about their upcoming single and their Palestinian solidarity work.
MORE Irish artists who were scheduled to play at the American music and film festival South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, have now announced that they will not be attending in solidarity with Palestine – due to the festival's links with the US military.
FOR the first time in history a civic room in Belfast City Hall – once a bastion of unionism – was used to launch this year's Easter Lily campaign, to commemorate those who died for Irish freedom.
THERE can be few less attractive sights than politicians who stand on the coffins of the dead the better to hurl insults and demands at their opponents. The ink was scarcely dry on the interim Kenova report than the DUP and Fianna Fáil were busy doing just that.
THERE was a feeling that hell had frozen over for the unveiling of two new statues of Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney at City Hall. If you had been one of the people in the crowd at, say, Bill Clinton addressing Belfast, or this rally or that rally over the years, you'd have seen that there was a markedly different atmosphere and a very eclectic crowd of people. A real diversity of political opinion.