A new sculpture reflecting the hopes and fears of both sides at a South Belfast-West Belfast interface has proved to be a hands-on experience for all involved – quite literally. ‘The Belfast Handshake is to be erected on green space near the junction of the Blacks Road and Stewartstown Road is an imaginative representatition of […]
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A simple handshake seals a peaceline contract for a brighter future
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Grand Master’s call for more protests draws stinging rebuke from former senior Orangeman
The weekend call by the Grand Master of the Orange Order for more loyalist protests over the Twaddell Avenue impasse has drawn angry criticism from a former leading member. Reverend Brian Kenneway, a former convenor of the education committee of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, said he’s been left “distraught” after Edward Stevenson urged Orange […]
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Belfast attacks spark fears of return to gun law
A North Belfast man has spoken of how he was forced to barricade himself into his home as a gang of armed and masked men tried to break down his front door. And the shooting of two men in a paramilitary-style attack on the outskirts of Belfast last night has led an SDLP councillor to […]
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‘No-one had a clue’ – staff devastated as 200 jobs go at call centre
The company that’s about to lay off 200 workers at its West Belfast offices was advertising for staff on this Andersonstown Road billboard yesterday even as it was telling its workers the bad news. Staff at the Ageas call centre in Springvale Business Park were called into a meeting without warning yesterday afternoon to learn […]
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Students vote to take strike action alongside trade unions
STUDENTS at Queen’s University are to strike this month alongside public sector workers in opposition to recently announced austerity measures. In a referendum, 86 per cent of the 954 students who voted backed a ‘Yes’ vote that called for the strike action as part of a “sustained campaign against cuts to university funding and […]
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Result of teachers’ union vote on strike action to be known this week
Parents, pupils and school staff will find out this week whether teachers will take strike action in response to the revised NI Executive budget. The result of a vote by members of INTO – Ireland’s largest teachers’ union – will be made known on Thursday. INTO’s annual conference last week was addressed by Education Minister John […]
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