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South Belfast News May 18, 2012

Estate agent abuse ‘not uncommon’

A STUDENT welfare officer says an incident this week where an estate agent barged into a student’s house in South Belfast is not “an isolated one”.

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South Belfast News May 18, 2012

How far have city’s quarters come?

THE ONGOING development of Belfast’s various quarters was the subject of a discussion at the One City conference. Chaired by West Belfast Partnership Board CEO Geraldine McAteer, it involved Paul McErlean of the Cathedral Quarter, Mike Smith of the Titanic Quarter and Eimear Ní Mhathúna from the Gaeltacht Quarter. Mike Smith spoke of the progress [...]

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South Belfast News May 18, 2012

Carryduff Colts claim third title of the season

The U17 team produced a great performance to get the point they needed to claim the First Division title against an excellent Ards Rangers.

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South Belfast News May 17, 2012

Graduates double reaps dividends

Graduates’ superb season has been rewarded with the largest representation in the Northern Ireland netball squad for the European Championships at the end of this month.

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South Belfast News May 17, 2012

Horror and humour found in crossfire

All politics is local and all war is as well. It may look international when the wise-eyed historians have stitched together a big map of events, but war as it happens is a myriad of confusing individual experiences. None of us can live life outside of our own skull.

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South Belfast News May 17, 2012

Tributes paid to producer

A SUCCESSFUL producer of Irish language films, who was living on the Lisburn Road, passed away suddenly at the weekend.

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Columnists May 18, 2012

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”.

Liam Murphy May 14, 2012

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.

Columnists May 13, 2012

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.

Colin Millar May 12, 2012

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.

Andersonstown News May 11, 2012

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).

Columnists May 11, 2012

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.