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Pam Schneider, owner of Cabin 519, felt that the summer traffic for Port Dover businesses was a little under a...

Boston, USA, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of 57 organizations grouped in the National Network on Cuba will assess their strategies to fight off the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba on the second day of their annual meeting.

It will soon be 10 years since the number of local authorities in Northern Ireland was reduced from 26, creating 11 super councils, each one responsible for greatly enlarged areas and populations. One of the biggest challenges facing each of them was to find ways to build community identity and maximise tourism, investment and quality of life.

Gyles Brandreth is talking about his surprisingly long association with Northern Ireland and the anecdotes and revelations come thick and fast: his encounters with the Rev Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams; why those who thought Prince Philip disliked meeting Martin McGuinness were wrong.

One of this week’s big stories was the news that a historic building in Bellaghy, home village of the late Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, will receive €4.6 (£4m) through funding from the Irish Government in the Shared Island Fund.