4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (467+ words) A MONUMENT to recognise unmarked Muslim graves has been erected in Belfast City Cemetery. From the 1920s to the 1940s at least 11 Muslims were laid to rest in Belfast City Cemetery. The majority are sailors (lascars), but among them is also Achmed…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (393+ words) FÉILE an Phobail have promised to deliver their biggest ever festival next year after criticism from DUP Communities Minister Gordon Lyons. The Minister's comments in the Assembly on Tuesday followed a question by DUP MLA Brian Kingston who compared Fleadh…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (436+ words) I CURRENTLY work for Community Garden Support, a charity involved in the support of and development of community growing groups. It also focuses on strategic networking and policy work to develop the community growing sector. The risk has always existed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (505+ words) A MOTION at Belfast City Council calling for urgent action to secure the entry of three purpose-built mobile maternity units into Gaza has been passed despite Unionist opposition. The motion called for representations to the Irish and British Governments and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (275+ words) Belfast Media Group Come back in spirit to the Belfast Homecoming by sending us your exile snaps Leaders from the Irish diaspora will fly into Ireland in October for the 13th Belfast International Homecoming but this year even those who can't…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (226+ words) THERE are moments in the life of a city when something extraordinary happens, moments that transcend politics, history and everyday concerns. They become memories etched into the collective heart of its people. For eight days our city experienced one of…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (181+ words) POLICE are appealing for information after a spate of overnight burglaries in North Belfast. Sometime between 11pm on Sunday night and 6am on Monday morning, a number of burglaries at residential properties in the vicinity of Cavehill Road, Antrim Road and Oldpark…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (599+ words) SHOULD the good people of Causeway have the right to dictate health policy for all of us and in so doing damage our Health and Social Care system? Under our unusual form of government it seems they do. A public…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) POLICE are investigating two arson attacks in North Belfast which took place within minutes of each other on Thursday night. Shortly before 10pm, police received a report of a fire at a house in Halliday’s Road in the Tigers Bay area....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (232+ words) A NORTH Belfast resident has spoken of his concern and anger after Union flags were erected in his street for the first time this summer. Several flags were erected on the residential Thorburn Road in Newtownabbey in July. Since then…...