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The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
News came from one of our New York readers of a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Dead offered in New York City this past All Souls Day at Holy Innocents Church. The celebrant will be familiar to many of you, Bishop James Timlin, formerly ordinary of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- a bishop who supported the FSSP in North America a great deal in their earliest days. Pictures were provided by the Society of...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin will visit to Belfast tomorrow for talks with senior Northern Ireland politicians.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has frozen the assets of a leading republican in South Armagh. It has been granted a court order to take control of properties and bank accounts belonging to Sean Gerard Hughes of Aghadavoyle Road, Dromintee. The agency claimed the assets came from laundering the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and benefit fraud. In 2002, Mr Hughes was named in parliament...
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Nicola Branagh US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton met with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Belfast’s Stormont Castle on the 12th October 2009 in light of the ongoing talks of the devolution of policing and justice in Northern Ireland. Mrs Clinton held private talks with the First Minister and Sinn [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Amid the moving accounts of the Berlin wall coming down ( Berlin's moment of freedom that turned world history , 9 November) there has been little analysis of why it went up. East German Christians explained to me that their government could not go on training teachers, engineers, doctors etc to have them poached by the West, where they could earn much more. Others said they were not against socialism,...
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mr Ulster contemplates an absence of ‘civic nationalism’ in Northern Ireland on his blog, prompted by the promotion of its ethnic cousin in Scotland, by the SNP First Minister. He believes that politics in the Republic of Ireland have embraced a more civic interpretation of nationalism, whilst there is no equivalent movement to the north of the border. In contrast, Jason Walsh, writing...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gerry Evans thought to have been kidnapped, killed and buried by Provisional IRA in 1970s Digging to recover the body of one of Northern Ireland's "disappeared" was resuming today in south Armagh. The search was to centre on an area at Hackballscross, close to the Irish border, as attempts to find the body of Gerry Evans, who was last seen hitchhiking in Co Monaghan in March 1979, restart....
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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
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Wellbeing Newsline: Northern Ireland (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tackle disadvantage and boost life chance opportunities 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. The Integrated Services for Children and Young People Programme aims to increase the life chances and aspirations...
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Peregrine's Bird Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I finished work and raced down to to Oxford Island on the shores of Lough Neagh for the British Trust for Ornithology Birdwatching Conference 2009. It was a lovely clear morning. The room that the conference took place was filled. A great turnout the only sad thing to me was the age demographic with most being over 50. Over the period of the next 8 hours we were to have 11 speakers. Shane Wolsey the...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
News Letter 06 November 2009 PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott yesterday said he was happy with the £1 billion financial package secured for the devolution of policing powers and was ready and willing for the move to go ahead . Mr Baggott said the deal tabled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave him the ability to deliver effective community policing secure in the knowledge that outstanding bills...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
1950s Belfast bomb campaign was scrapped to avoid violent backlash against Catholics Henry McDonald The Observer Sunday 8 November 2009 The IRA abandoned extensive plans to blow up the BBC, the Stormont parliament and a Royal Navy station in Belfast during the 1950s because they believed that it would provoke a violent unionist backlash. More than a decade before the Provisional IRA launched its armed...
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Belfast Telegraph reports that output from the Strangford Loch tidal power station is exceeding expectations - Strangford wave turbine exceeding expectations (note to the editors - its not wave power). The marine turbine installed at the mouth of Strangford Lough last year is generating more power than expected, such is the force of the current. SeaGen is now running fully automatically, producing...
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Torontoist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On Wednesday, Torontoist books editor James Grainger sat down with novelist, travel writer, and humourist Will Ferguson at the Irish Embassy pub to discuss all thing literary and his new travel memoir Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet . Ferguson is the author of the novels Generica (later changed to Happiness ) and Spanish Fly , and the travel memoirs Beauty Tips...
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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,...