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An unusual combination, but one of Ireland’s leading rock bands, grammy-nominated Fontaines DC, will feature on the front of Bohemians jersey this season in a joint bid to tackle homelessness.
To mark International Women's Day, Belfast Telegraph political editor Suzanne Breen talks to five of our up-and-coming female politicians. Kathryn Owen (43) is a DUP member of Newry, Mourne & Down Council. She is a likely candidate in next year's Assembly election. Unionism has a lack of women politicians, and it's a problem. Look at DUP and UUP benches in Stormont. They have very few female faces compared to the other side of the chamber. We need to change that. The personal abuse that females in politics suffer means it doesn't appeal to many as a career. Arlene Foster and Carla Lockhart re...
Seanad Éireann to mark International Women’s Day by unveiling painting by Leitrim artist Reporter: '); Seanad Éireann will mark International Women’s Day next Monday, 8 March 2021, by unveiling a painting entitled “Her Surrender” by Leitrim artist Sinéad Guckian. The Drumsna artist (and former county councillor) painted this having discovered that Elizabeth O’Farrell, the woman Patrick Pearse selected to carry his message seeking to open negotiations for the cessation of hostilities at the end of Easter Week, was ‘airbrushed’ from the photograph of Pearse delivering the ...
Irelandâs border is a hot Brexit topic - hereâs a history of the partition The division of the island is on the front burner again as many nationalists and republicans demand a border poll as allowed in the Good Friday Agreement. Gerry OâShea Mar 02, 2021 How Ireland's partition came to be and why it's a hot topic in recent times. Getty Images Facebook
A bullet hole from 1916 on the O'Connell monument in Dublin “There are positive and negative reactions to the word ‘fenian’. Usually it’s negative if it’s followed by the word ‘bastard’.” We are standing in the basement of the International bar in Wicklow Street in Dublin – myself, Jamie the photographer and a group of representatives of Failte Ireland, the Irish tourist board, listening to our host, Lorcan Collins, author, editor and founder of the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour. He is setting the scene for the next hour and a half: a walk through the streets of the Irish ca...