This afternoon.
Maire tweetz:
Preparing for the 12th of July bonfire in Belfast. She’s big.
Needs more defiant tricolour
Tag Archives: Belfast
RTE reports:
“A man [a ‘senior Republican who was sought by the PSNI for the murder of Robert McCartney‘, according to sources of RTÉ Northern Ireland correspondent Tommy O’Gorman] has been shot dead in an attack in south Belfast. Police have sealed off a number of streets and what appears to be a body is lying covered by a sheet on a street.”
“The Police Service of Northern Ireland said officers were responding to an incident in the Markets area of the city.”
Man shot dead in Belfast was former IRA figure – reports (RTÉ)
Former IRA commander shot dead in Belfast (The Guardian)
Pic: Jordan Moates
You may recall how Andrew McMenamin opened a crisp sanger shop in Belfast yesterday.
Well.
It sold out within two hours.
Not only that.
UTV reports:
“Look, it’s a bit of fun,” Andrew said. “But we’re spinning Belfast positively – it’s Belfast baps from Kirk’s Bakery, it’s Nutty Crust, it’s Tayto. It’s local products, it’s local butter. I believe someone is actually in talks with Ulster Fry to open one in Dublin …”
This could change evNOMNOMNOM
First crisp café left with crumbs (UTV)
Previously: Life Imitaytos Art
Image of a crisp sandwich café in The Ulster Fry
Newstalk reports:
“The first ever crisp sandwich cafe has opened its doors in Belfast.The cafe came about after a website, UlsterFry.com, did a mock article about one such cafe. They were then approached by an owner wanting to start one…They offer Tayto, Walkers and even Monster Munch for your sandwich. Andrew McMenamin is now the owner of the Simply Crispy Cafe, located at 8 Bedford Street in the city.”
The world’s first crisp sandwich cafe has opened in Belfast (Newstalk)
Crisp sandwich gets new lease of life in hip Belfast eatery (The Ulster Fry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_GzbHDNz0
An anti-abortion protester has been convicted of harassing a Marie Stopes clinic director at her Belfast city centre offices.
Bernadette Smyth, who leads the anti-abortion group Precious Life, was warned she could face a jail sentence for her campaign against Dawn Purvis.
The judge said: “This case was run, no-holds barred, in a vicious and malicious fashion.”
He said an investigating police officer had been deliberately slandered.
Ms Purvis had been the victim of an unwarranted attack, the judge said.
Mrs Smyth was also told she will be ordered to pay compensation and would be restrained from the area around the clinic.
The 51-year-old had denied harassing Ms Purvis – a former Progressive Unionist Party assembly member – on two dates earlier this year.
With sentencing put back until next month, Mrs Smyth was told her potential punishment could be community service or prison.
The judge said anti-abortion campaigners stationed outside the clinic had been forcing any women of child-bearing age to identify their reasons for entering.
Because of that conduct, he said the range of possible sentencing may go from community service to imprisonment.
Mrs Smyth was told she will certainly have some form of restraining order imposed on her.
Although she left court without making comment, her solicitor described the verdict as “a disappointment for Christians worldwide“.
Anti-abortion protester Bernadette Smyth guilty of harassing Dawn Purvis (BBC News NI)
Previously: Bernie Smyth on Broadsheet
Roselawn Cemetery and Crematorium, outside Belfast
Almost two tonnes of metal has been collected from the ashes of cremated bodies in Northern Ireland over the last four years as part of a recycling scheme, but bereaved families were not told, The Detail can reveal.
Precious metals including jewellery, gold teeth and fillings, as well as metal hips and nails from coffins are routinely collected from the site of Northern Ireland’s only crematorium in a process that began in 2010.
The materials are shipped to the Netherlands where a specialist company sorts the metals, with some being re-used in the construction of objects as diverse as road signs and aircraft engines.
Recycled material, it’s all relative.™
A new mural by Berlin-based French street artist MTO, for ‘Hit The North’ Culture Night in Belfast.
The mural at Talbot Street in the yard of the Northern Ireland War Memorial depicts the Greek sophist philosopher Protagoras, a proponent of agnosticism, who wrote:
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life.
It’s a good thing Dr Paisley’s not around to hear that kind of talk so it is.
Did you know there’s a chippy in Belfast called Fishbook? pic.twitter.com/9nx4hVef0o
— Conor Shanley (@Conor_utv) September 19, 2014
In Belfast.
They’re on facebook.
(l-r) Bernie Smyth, Kathy Sinnott, Dana Rosemary Scallon
An anti-abortion protester accused of behaving like a witch told a Belfast court: “I’m no witch, I’m a Catholic”.
Bernadette Smyth, who leads the anti-abortion group Precious Life, was replying to a prosecution lawyer.
Mrs Smyth, of Suffolk Street, Ballymena, County Antrim, denies harassing Marie Stopes clinic director Dawn Purvis.
The lawyer suggested she had laughed at Ms Purvis in a “cackling, jeering, mocking way, in a witch’s manner.”
Ms Smyth replied: “I can’t agree with this court that I’m a witch. I’m a Catholic.”
The case concerns two incidents involving the accused that happened outside the Marie Stopes Clinic, Great Victoria Street, Belfast, in January and February.
The case continues.
Catholic of the Year 2013, awarded by the Knights of St. Columbanus no less.
It’s not a Golden Cleric but it’s a start.
Bernadette Smyth tells court: ‘I’m no witch, I’m a Catholic’ (BBC News NI)
Charge of harassing former MLA a set-up says pro-life lobbyist (Irish News)
Previously: Bernie Smyth on Broadsheet
File Pic: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor has defended spending an estimated seven-figure sum on refurbishing his residence at a time when the Pope is promoting a simpler life for Church leaders. Dr Treanor is to move back into the luxurious 15,000 sq ft Lisbreen House next month after two years of building work on the property.
The Irish News has learned:
- Stormont provided more than £300,000 of taxpayers’ money for the refurbishment
- other funds came from two private benefactors
Dr Treanor said the work was done for “future generations” and was a “contribution to the economy in a difficult time” however Dr Treanor was unable to provide a total cost for the building project
“It’s my job for whatever number of years I am spared, if I’m spared for another 12 or 13 years to maintain two things – the quest for faith and at the same time to keep the fabric of the diocese, you could call it, the parishes up to scratch.”
However, a victims campaigner has criticised the extravagance of the renovations saying the amount spent on it was a “disgrace”.
Bishop defends massive spend on upgrading his luxury 15,000 sq ft house (Suzanne McGonagle, Irish News) [behind paywall]