Leisure Centres are no stranger to muscle. Gymnasiums ae full of posers, pumping iron, preening themselves and feeling good about every show of strength. You expect that. What you dont necessarily expect is to see pictures of Belfast City Council’s…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
“Up da Provies!” Belfast City Council property used for IRA remembrance event.
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“The Night the Music Cried.” Unanswered questions surrounding the Miami Showband massacre. (Jeanne Griffin)
The red torch moving in a circular motion like a bloodshot eye in the middle of the dark Ulster road didn’t cause alarm for trumpet player Brian McCoy. A veteran member of the popular cabaret group, the Miami Showband, he…
Lives at stake in NI because of denial of 34 cancer drugs.
You’ve been diagnosed with cancer. You are frightened, and upset, and uncertain of the future. You have no control if or when this disease is going to kill you. You resolve to fight it using every means possible to prolong…
Interview with Una Crudden – “This may be a silent killer, but I’m not going to be silent about it. “
Una Crudden is 60 today. It’s a birthday she didn’t think she would see. Five years ago she was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. She had originally been misdiagnosed. That misdiagnosis meant that by the time her cancer was caught,…
Her name is Bridget, and shes not “just an alcoholic”.
“I cried when I saw the footage. I am a human being you know.” The poignant words of 23 year old Bridget Mongan, as she explained her hurt at being left in a bus layby by members of the PSNI…
The arrest of Ivor Bell
Vixens has learned that the 77 year old man arrested in Belfast this morning is veteran republican Ivor Bell. Bell, who has been living openly in West Belfast for decades, was taken by the PSNI to Antrim Serious Crime Suite…
Dissidents. People just want to live. Let them.
I had intended to write a light hearted blog piece tonight. However, as I type, a blast bomb has been thrown, presumably by dissident republicans, at a police car, just off the Whiterock Area of West Belfast. Another booby trap…
If the journalism ladder is broken, carve your own rung. Lyra Mc Kee.
Nearly two years ago, I received a tip. 31 years previous, a local politician, Robert Bradford, was murdered. It happened in 1981, a bloody and tumultuous year in Northern Irish politics. It seemed inevitable that the IRA would eventually kill…
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RAISING ‘GOOD CATHOLIC CHILDREN’ AS A SELF CONFESSED HEATHEN. Deborah Crawley
I was born into a catholic family and raised with catholic beliefs, I went to a primary school with a strong catholic ethos and then on to a convent girl’s school for secondary education. I learned at a very young…
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Women are born equal but everywhere they are in chains: Adapted from Rousseau.
I’ve been a feminist for as long as I can remember. I was a feminist before I was aware there was such a thing as feminism. My awareness of the subjection of women to man’s laws began at a very…
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