EARLY morning sunshine welcomed the thousands of worshippers who turned out for the first session of this year’s Clonard Solemn Novena yesterday (Wednesday) morning.The rain which had been thundering down for most of the week disappeared as people from across West Belfast and far beyond made their way to the newly refurbished church for the early morning vigil Mass.
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Fancy a dragon on the Lagan?
THE Chinese Welfare Association (CWA) is organising the annual Chinese Dragon Boat Festival 2012 and this year we will highlight the features of the River Lagan and the new Titanic Quarter development on Sunday, 24th June, 2012, at Belfast Boat Club, near Cutter’s Wharf, Stranmillis, Belfast.
Miracle of little baby Rubie
A YOUNG West Belfast couple will be counting their blessings at the Clonard Novena this week after their new-born baby was rescued from the brink of death. Jonny and Tanya McKeown were told there were “no signs of life” after little Rubie was born on May 28, and they were faced with the agonising decision of whether or not to switch off her ventilator.
Got the talent? You’re in the Tribe
There’s a rich source of untapped creative talent bubbling under the surface in working class communities across Belfast just waiting to be discovered. That’s the message from a unique Belfast-based talent scouting and training organisaton who next week will give that talent a chance to break through into one of our most exciting and rapidly growing industries.
Arise, Sir Squinter. Now sit down again
AS the great and the good of Our Wee Pravince beam for the cameras after being included on this year’s Queen’s Corgi’s Birthday Honours List – or Spot the Catholic, as it’s known in West Belfast – Squinter wonders how he can elbow his way into this exalted company.
Local parks experience big rise in booze and nuisance
SOUTH Belfast’s parks continue to have a “significant” problem with public boozing and other anti-social behaviour, the Council has warned. New figures show a stark rise in incidents right across Belfast city parks and leisure facilities, with Botanic Gardens topping the city list of problem parks in the period between February and May.
