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Mum in Holy Cross doc says line has been drawn

Cross-community relations in North Belfast have improved dramatically in the ten years since the Holy Cross dispute and the positive attitudes of the

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Expenses paid despite hold on review

Belfast city councillors have been paid almost £30,000 in the past year for taking part in a review into the future of local government that has been suspended since June 2010.

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Locals block trial dig at mast site

North Belfast residents opposed to the erecting of a mobile phone mast in their street have blocked a ‘trial dig’ there, and stated they are “confused and angry” about the situation.

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The Boss man

Hugo Finlay is the owner of Hugo Thomas menswear, one of the most recognisable independent stores on the Lisburn Road. A committed member of the

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Mourne the merrier for marine biologist

Later this month, the brightest and best of local businesses will converge on Stormont for the Belfast Media Group’s Top 50 Businesses awards ceremony.

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School of music in tune with ongoing rise of trad

Since 2001 over a thousand young musicians from North Belfast have taken their first steps on the road to traditional music mastery at a Glengormley music school.

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Lock us up and swallow the key!

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.

Big man of GAA celebrates in style

Veni, Vidi, Vinci . I came, I saw, I conquered, was the powerful message sent back to Rome by Julius Caesar when he won a war in Zela (currently known as Zile in Turkey. After spending two days with the Gaels of Glengormley, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might well have sent a similar message back to headquarters. Throughout the two days he won the hearts of all who met him as he demonstrated his love and passion for the Irish language and Gaelic games.

That’s not the way to do it as summer nears

THERE’S nothing funnier for children to watch than a long-suffering wife getting battered with a cudgel by a short-tempered violent husband – or so you’d think if you watched a seaside Punch and Judy show.

Blues make it a double

Linfield replicated their end of season celebrations from 12 months ago as they lifted their second trophy in the space of a week, defeating Crusaders 4-1 in Saturday’s Irish Cup final.

My marathon highs and lows

HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).

Who calls the shots in Europe?

I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.