The Falls Road Gaeltacht Quarter is to get special economic status as part of a package of measures aimed at driving growth announced yesterday by the Finance Minister. Máirtín Ó Muilleoir made the announcement as he outlined a rethink of the rates system that he hopes will see extra cash freed up to invest in […]
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Gaeltacht Quarter in line for special economic status
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Innovative thermometer set to transform Health Service
AN innovative non-contact medical thermometer is set to transform the NHS with an entrepreneurial spark born out of the e3 campus in West Belfast. The thermometer, a brainchild of TriMedika’s Dr Roisin Molloy and Julie Brien, is the only EU-designed and built device on the market. Roisin explained how the device, which can read and […]
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Fianna Fáil appoint Antrim Road man as northern youth organiser
PLANS for Fianna Fáil to contest elections in the north have taken another step forward with a North Belfast man having been elected to organise the junior wing of the party in the six counties. Paul McNamee, a trainee solicitor from the Antrim Road, joined the party while studying at Trinity College as he didn’t […]
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Rihanna’s bathroom a hopeless place for New Lodge resident
A LEAK and ceiling collapse in a flat used in the making of a Rihanna music video has left a New Lodge resident without use of a bathroom for five weeks. Paul Taggart, a resident of Oisin House tower block, contacted the North Belfast News after numerous attempts to get the problem fixed came to […]
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Tears behind the laughter at the MAC
PATRICIA Gormley is a woman of many talents. At the age of 40 and after raising her four children she went to Queen’s University and studied English Literature and Politics alongside two of her daughters. She taught English to mature students, then went into working with the elderly and that’s where she discovered her talent […]
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In a Lebanon camp, Palestinans wait and hope
BONE man Eddie Whyte is an elected national officer in Fagforbundet, Norway’s largest trade union, and is active on Palestinian and human rights issues. He’s just back from a trip to meet some refugees. “Have been to Nablus yet?” she asked. “I myself am from there but I have never been. One day, I will […]
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