Belfast

Man murdered in east Belfast

ireland.com (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

Police in Northern Ireland have launched a murder inquiry after a man was found dead at a house in East Belfast.

Northern Ireland: first minister vows not to abandon assembly

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Peter Robinson warns Sinn Féin that policing and justice row threatens devolution Northern Ireland's first minister vowed yesterday not to walk away from the Assembly, even if the row with Sinn Féin over policing and justice remains unresolved. But Peter Robinson warned Sinn Féin that its threats to the assembly's institutions were destabilising the entire devolution project....

The BBC soundbite from the DUP conference…

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

JUST caught Peter Robinson on News 24. The section of the speech that attracted the BBC’s attention most was this: I cannot guarantee the future of the Assembly but I can guarantee that it will not be the DUP that will walk away. I can also guarantee that in whatever circumstances we find ourselves, the DUP will act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland. This is the DUP message...

Tackling the male fertility taboo

You Can Get Pregnant in Your 40's (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

A conference at Queen's University in Belfast is to discuss the growing problem of male infertility. BBC Northern Ireland health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly explores a sensitive problem. "It becomes a very, very dark place that you go into - you think it must be your wife that has the problem - never do you think it could be you the man," William Steenson told me. Read more... Life...

Killing off the needy

Why Dont You Blog? (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

I am sure pretty much everyone in the UK knows that Northern Ireland is cold and wet. It really is. Some summers are fantastic, but the best you can hope for is a few decent months to break up the wet and cold weather. Last winter the city centre, and major motorways, were closed for days as a result of huge amounts of snow. It really is cold. So then, I find (on good old BBC News) an interesting...

“At time of recording this broadcast the Bill has still not been scheduled.”

Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

The decision by the Northern Ireland Education Minister, Sinn Féin’s Caitríona Ruane, not to move the Consideration Stage of the Education Bill in the Assembly in October risks another vacuum developing in the education system. There’s also been a subsequent DUP amendment tabled which would appear to seek to restrict the Department’s ability to bring into operation some...

Northern Irish police says bomb targets officers

Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

BELFAST (Reuters) - Army experts in Northern Ireland have defused a bomb which targeted police officers, police said on Thursday.

Row erupts over humanist poster in Belfast

The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

THE war of words between atheists and religious believers has entered a new chapter with the launch of Northern Ireland’s first ever humanist advertising campaign. The British Humanist Association (BHA) yesterday unveiled a billboard with the slogan: Please Don’t Label Me. Let Me Grow Up And Choose For Myself. Located on one Belfast’s busiest routes, the poster is [...]

Construction Begins on Bombardier’s CSeries Aircraft Wing Manufacturing Facility in Belfast

Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Bombardier Aerospace has celebrated another major milestone in the CSeries aircraft program as construction began on its new state-of-the-art aircraft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland. “This is another significant milestone in the ongoing development of the CSeries aircraft program. In August, the test fuselage barrel arrived ahead of schedule at our St-Laurent,...

• Bombardier's CSeries Aircraft Wing Manufacturing Facility Gets Under Way in Belfast - AirTransportNews.aero

Belfast high court rejects Spain's bid to extradite Eta suspect

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

A judge at Belfast high court has thrown out an attempt by Spain to have a suspected member of the armed Basque separatist group Eta's youth wing extradited. Judge Tom Burgess ruled that a European arrest warrant issued against Arturo Villaneuva Arteaga, 33, was invalid. Arteaga, who has lived in Northern Ireland for six years running a tourism business, is accused in Spain of carrying out violent...

Don't label me

Naws (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

I love this new BHA poster , for me it encapsulates the real reason why religion is still here in the 21st century The poster is part of a new campaign to counter publicly funded faith schools here in the UK. The main purpose of these schools of course is to assist the indoctrination process of children into a particular faith, by definition. Such institutions seem destined to divide and segregate...

Irish Economic Association Conference: Belfast 2010

Geary Behaviour Centre (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

The twenty-fourth annual conference of the Irish Economic Association will be held from 23rd to 25th April 2010 at the Stormont Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Association invites submissions of papers to be considered for inclusion in the conference programme. Papers may be on any subject in Economics, Finance and Econometrics. The deadline for submissions is Friday 15th January; the full call...

Bombardier's CSeries Aircraft Wing Manufacturing Facility Gets Under Way in Belfast

India Press Release (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Bombardier Aerospace today celebrated another major milestone in the CSeries aircraft programme as construction got under way on its new state-of-the-art aircraft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Bombardier's CSeries Aircraft Wing Manufacturing Facility Gets Under Way in Belfast - AirTransportNews.aero

Stephen Rea's Former Sister-In-Law Still a Psycho Terrorist

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Back in May, I wrote this post about the murders of two British Army sappers, Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and fretted that dissident Republicans were getting bolder in their attacks on the police, army, and those it considered traitors to the Feinian cause. Last month, The Christian Science Monitor wondered if IRA splinter groups could "bring...

Northern Ireland police arrest 2 over killings of soldiers

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Police say they have arrested a man and woman on suspicion of involvement in the dissident Irish Republican Army slaying of two British soldiers...

Northern Ireland’s new Integrated Services for Children and Young People

wellbeingnewseditor | 11/08/2009

Wellbeing Newsline: Northern Ireland > Edited by Nick Adams: A major programme designed to tackle disadvantage among young people and children in the West Belfast and Greater Shankill area of Northern Ireland, was recently unveiled by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness MP... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland >...

Use Car Hire Belfast Airport for the Most Convenient Holiday

elina_ | 10/27/2009

Situated 32 km to the northwest of Belfast city and adjacent to Aldergrove, Crumlin and Killead is the Belfast International Airport. The airport is considered as one of the premier airports of Northern Ireland and serves nearly 5.5 million passengers annually. Belfast Airport is well connected to the rest of Northern Ireland situated adjacent to A26 – Tully Road and A57 – Ballyrobin Road. As of 2009,...

Northern Ireland Commissioner urges Belfast trust to fund NI–ADD charity

wellbeingnewseditor | 09/13/2009

Wellbeing Newsline: Northern Ireland > Edited by Andy Porter: Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, Patricia Lewsley, has expressed concern that Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is not funding a charity for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales...