FILMING starts in Twinbrook next week for a new Channel Four four-part series based on the award winning novel Close to Home, by West Belfast writer Michael Magee.
JUNIOR Minister Aisling Reilly has visited the Woman to Woman project at Newhill Youth and Community Centre to hear first-hand about the support being provided to women in the local community.
WE are in the midst of Seachtain na Gaeilge. It used to run for one just week, but its popularity is now such that it has been extended in order to cover the period from March 1 to 17 – St Patrick’s Day.
In the 1960s , John Hume declared : “The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing [as the Irish Civil Rights movement], about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.”
2026 began wet and gloomy, but the first hints of spring are finally showing. Snowdrops and crocuses have flowered, daffodils are beginning to bloom, trees are starting to bud, and the evenings are slowly growing lighter.
THE main electrolytes that our bodies require include calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium and chloride. These are electrically charged minerals that are crucial for hydration, nerves, movement and our ph balance.
Belfast St Patrick’s Music Festival returns 13–17 March with five days of concerts, workshops, dance, pipe bands and a FREE Festival Village in the Cathedral Quarter, celebrating Belfast’s status as a UNESCO City of Music.
