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South Belfast News May 17, 2012

Attendees gather from far and wide at opening

THE third annual One City Conference took place last week with delegates from as far as the US and the Basque Country flying in to Belfast to participate.

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South Belfast News May 16, 2012

Ulster poised for European glory

ULSTER fans will be hoping to party like it’s 1999 at Twickenham on Saturday when Brian McLaughlin’s side take on Leinster in the Heineken Cup final.

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South Belfast News May 16, 2012

An actor’s life for me

Brian Kennedy is a member of Fringe Benefits Theatre Company and recently played the part of Bassanio in their production of the ‘Merchant of Venice’ in Belfast at The Strand, the Crescent Arts Centre and the Lyric Theatre. His next acting role is in ‘Sitting up for Michael’ a new play at the Crescent Arts Centre at the end of this month.

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South Belfast News May 16, 2012

Civic leaders must set themselves bolder goals

If the mission of last week’s Belfast One City Conference could be summed up in a word, it would be a four-letter one: Jobs.

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South Belfast News May 16, 2012

‘Legal high’ banned but still causing havoc

A potentially lethal former ‘legal high’ is still in demand across South Belfast, after having previously caused an “epidemic” of anti-social behaviour in local areas.

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South Belfast News May 14, 2012

Work begins on potholes but problems remain

REPAIR work has begun in one of South Belfast’s most exclusive residential areas after a surge in complaints about the the state of the road.

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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.