4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (203+ words) A PUBLIC meeting is to take place in North Belfast on Thursday focusing on the future of the pro-life movement in Ireland. Organised by Aontú, it will take place at the Lansdowne Hotel on the Antrim Road, at 7.30pm. The meeting…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (322+ words) FOR 30 years the Aisling Awards have celebrated the very best of Belfast — the generosity, resilience and indomitable spirit that continue to define a city full of ambition and opportunity. For three decades, these awards have shone a spotlight on the…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (755+ words) WRONGLY convicted of the IRA bombings of Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, Paddy Armstrong would spend 15 years in English prisons along with Paul Hill, Gerard Conlon and Carole Richardson, until their convictions were overturned in 1989. Based on his best-selling memoir, Life…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (274+ words) KATIE Taylor had her first amateur bout aged 15, taking on Belfast fighter Alanna Nihell, then known as Alanna Audley. The fight was the first women's fight sanctioned by the Irish boxing authorities. Fighting in front of a maximum capacity crowd…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (232+ words) A WEST Belfast hip-hop dance school is celebrating after unprecedented success at the recent World Championships. Moco Collective is a dance school based in Blackstaff Mill on the Springfield Road that offers inclusivity, acceptance and classes while striving to develop…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) A BANNER commemorating the 1981 republican hunger-strike in the H-Blocks in which ten men died has gone on display for the first time at the Ulster Museum. The banner includes the inscription 'Comóradh buantúıl ar an stailc ocrai – An enduring commemoration…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (413+ words) THE Andersonstown News/North Belfast News and belfastmedia.com has expanded its services in recent weeks with the appointment of a dedicated Irish language journalist. Aodhán Ó Baoill is originally from Portstewart in County Derry and has lived in Belfast…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (166+ words) A MAN has been charged after a car mounted the Michael Ferguson roundabout in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A dark grey Audi was visible at the scene on the Stewartstown Road, cordoned off with PSNI tape, on top…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (423+ words) A funeral service has been held in his native Stockholm, NJ for Irish American Belfast Ambassador recipient and legal luminary William Cox. Bill, who had been struggling with illness recently, passed away suddenly on 17 August. A tireless supporter of the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (672+ words) YOU don’t have to look too far to identify the root cause of the tragedy to befall Lough Neagh – it lies across the Irish Sea. Rules that date from colonial times that we thought we had consigned to the dustbin…...