BELFAST City Council is inviting residents to pick up their trowels and join the 2026 Belfast in Bloom competition, which features an exciting new addition: the ‘Best Alleyway’ category.
ST Gerard's Special School on Blacks Road is preparing for a marathon effort this Sunday with 55 members of the school community taking part in the annual 26.2 mile event.
FOR as long as the English have occupied Ireland there have been political prisoners. As long as there have been political prisoners there have been daring and ingenious escapes. In the most recent period of conflict it is estimated that around 100 republicans participated in escapes, including the great escape from the H-Blocks in 1983. That was the biggest ever in British penal history. Others tunnelled their way out; clambered over walls; escaped in a helicopter; shot their way out; blew a hole in a wall; hid in a bin lorry; or dressed as priests; or in one case as a woman. I was a Samuel Beckett type of escapee. I failed. But I never gave up. I failed better.
AFTER a hugely successful debut at Féile an Phobail last summer, a comedy play delving into the chaotic yet humorous atmosphere surrounding an Irish wake is set to take to the stage one again.
