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Features
When Winston Churchill said the wrong thing . . .
This month one hundred years ago Winston Churchill addressed an audience of nationalists in Celtic Park, Belfast, and told them of his support for Home Rule. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on the infamous visit
The life of Co Down’s ‘Grand Old Lady’
A book charting the history of the Downshire Hospital from its days as an asylum to the present time will be central to a week-long series of celebrations next month. LAURA MURPHY reports
Downshire’s history brought to book by former nurse
“THERE is something about the Downshire, and almost everybody who came to work in it would say that. There is something about it that gets a hold of you,” says Sean Kelly.
Take flight with a new fitness regime
EMMA DEIGHAN recently took part in the first ever Antigravity Yoga class in Castlereagh, a new fitness phenomenon that is still in its infancy even across the pond in America - and literally fell head over heels in love with it
Maracycle in memory of columnist John
JACQUI Connery, wife of popular News Letter columnist and talented artist John Connery who died last July following a long battle with cancer, said she is touched her 24-year-old son Michael, John’s nephew Andrew Holden and a group of other energetic cyclists, are undertaking the 220-mile maracycle in her husband’s memory and to raise much needed funds for charity.
Drum Beat: Music galore as fans turn out to help raise funds
BURNSIDE Hall was packed last Friday night, the occasion being a fundraiser for Ballykeel Loyal Sons of Ulster Flute Ballymena.
Ulster families wanted for troubled teens TV series
Has the atmosphere in your home been unbearable since your child became a teenager? Barely recognise your once adorable and well-behaved offpsring? Then it might be time to call in the experts. LAURA MURPHY reports on a new TV show aiming to do just that
Marriages that have stood the test of time
Following on from the report on the special service of thanksgiving for marriage in St Mark’s Parish Church, Armagh, LAURA MURPHY meets two of the couples who attended and finds out why their nuptials weren’t just for Valentine’s Day, but for life
‘Bowel cancer test may save your life’
BOWEL cancer is the second most common cancer in Northern Ireland and claims the lives of 400 local people each year, but when detected at a very early stage there is a 90 per cent successful treatment rate.
‘I feel lucky cancer was detected’
Alaster Smyth, 68, from Glynn, near Larne in Co Antrim praises the bowel cancer screening programme, led by the Public Health Agency, for saving his life.
George VI: remembering the monarch 60 years on
King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham on February 6, 1952 and his death was the occasion of a great outpouring of national grief. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on monarch’s life
Silver surfers face up to social networking
If we’re complaining that our children are too busy to talk to us, there is one medium through which we can be sure of keeping up with their adventures - Facebook. And more older people then ever before are logging on to this popular website, as LAURA MURPHY finds out when she meets two ‘silver Facebookers’
‘I’m back in touch with people’
ABOUT two years ago Co Down woman Hilary Glenn set up a Facebook profile and received her first friend request.
‘It’s a door into a brilliant world’
UNTIL Warrenpoint man Hugh Heatley was medically retired at the age of 54, he had never even used a computer.
It’s all about Billy
GRAHAM Reid’s Billy plays, screened in the 1980s, offered, for the first time, a glimpse into working-class Ulster Portestant life.
Entertainment for short attention spans
THE BELFAST Children’s Festival returns with a week-long programme beginning, March 9, of fun-filled events and low cost activities for children aged 0-14.
Host a tea party and fundraise for cancer
EVERY year in Northern Ireland more than 180 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Grim statistics, yet funding and awareness of ovarian cancer remains low.
Who will be 2012 Nurse of the Year?
THE search is on to find the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2012.
Sign up for charity’s Wonder Woman challenge
WONDER Woman Niamh Callan is taking off to sign up for the Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) Wonder Woman Challenge in April.
Living it large: families who love their big brood
Not all families adhere to the ideal of producing 2.4 children to complete their little unit, as a new series on Channel 4 recently highlighted. LAURA MURPHY explores the effects of living with multiple brothers and sisters - and meets a Northern Ireland man who grew up with 14
‘During the summer holidays we never knew what boredom was’
AS one of a family of 15 children, growing up in the late 50s and early 60s, belonging to such a large brood was nothing out of the ordinary in the small Co Londonderry community where he was from, according to Maghera man Sean Henry.
Bobbie Hanvey shares the best of his photographic archive
VETERAN photographer Bobbie Hanvey has snapped the great and good, the obscure and the strange, the old and the young, poets and prelates, chimney sweeps and Orangemen and women walking with firewood in their arms.
Spotlight on female experience and empowerment in provocative play
AMERICAN Eve Esler penned The Vagina Monologues in 1996 both as a celebration of female sexuality and a rallying call against sexual violence. It was about reclaiming ‘down there’ from any sense of shame or embarrassment; inviting women to tell the truth about their sexuality and their bodies, the monologues also bear witness to harrowing experiences of rape and assault, through to the joys of childbirth and fulfilling sexuality.
Drum Beat: Four counties unite for evening of music
SEVERAL high-profile indoor band events took place at the weekend, with Co Antrim and Co Tyrone venues.
70 years on, remembering when the Yanks arrived
Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of 4,000 US infantrymen in Belfast. Local historian Gordon Lucy examines their impact on Ulster life
Ruth opens up about her ‘living bereavement’
In a moving interview with HELEN McGURK This Morning presenter and Alzheimer’s Society ambassador Ruth Langsford talks candidly about her father’s Alzheimer’s and why she is hoping a charity event in March will raise much needed awareness of the condition
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