Boys' Brigade

Edward Massey's dream in life was to reach the age of five so that he could start the Boy's Brigade and bring along a "a big box of buns" to share with his friends.

Mum’s memorial tribute to son, 4, who died in Tenerife pool tragedy

There are 11,300 members of the Northern Ireland Boys’ Brigade, across 240 church groups (not just Presbyterian congregations), which also includes Co Donegal. In the Girls' Brigade in Northern Ireland there are 18,500 girls in 269 companies

Influence of BB and GB praised

Rev Dr Houston McKelvey OBE, Church of Ireland

Thought for the week: Be a winner in the race of life

Will what you wear to Sunday worship dictate where your soul ends up in eternity?

John Coulter: Casual fashion could be key to boosting pew numbers

The Reverend Derek Johnston, lead chaplain for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, at Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital, has been made an MBE. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

New Year honours: Belfast hospital chaplain dedicates MBE to team of 40

Portrush has long been a favourite destination for holidaymakers and day trippers, including Sunday schools on their annual excursions. John Coulter has fond memories from his youth of Sunday school trips to 'The Port' which included visits to Barry's amusements, buying The Beano comic, and water pistol fights with his friends

John Coulter: Memories of water pistol fights on church outings to ‘The Port’

The Mall Presbyterian church, Armagh city. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Marking the 140th anniversary of the Boys' Brigade movement

West Belfast Orange Hall is set to be renamed

Orange hall will be renamed in memory of late Queen Elizabeth II

Derek and Raye Greenaway

Major Boys' Brigade husband-and-wife duo stunned by New Year honour

Boys' Brigade NI has split from GB

Boys’ Brigade NI split from GB: Charting way forward on firm Christian ethos

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BB movement stresses its ‘unity in Christian mission’ amid possible schism in NI

Child prodigy and soprano, Eric "The Nightingale" Gentet, is making a rare appearance in Belfast on April 21

Ad Feature See tribute performance by The Nightingale soprano

Margaret Wilson's east Belfast home was bombed in 1941

VE Day: Belfast erupted in joy with burning bonfires, band parades and frisky sa...

First Connor Boys's Brigade Anchor Boys from 1995

First Connor Boys’ Brigade issue anniversary appeal

Jude Collins

Jude Collins '˜beneath contempt' for claiming Omagh victims not murdered

The Anglican monastery at Mirfield

Former Boys' Brigade officer lifts lid on his monk's life
A Northern Ireland man has told how a trip to see Pele at the 1966 World Cup resulted in him becoming a monk.
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Senior Orangeman James Emery has been named in the Queens New Year Honours for his service to the BB and his local community

Queen honours Jim for 54 years BB service

Billy Cummings is a founder member of Albertbridge Accordion Band and still an active member after 60 years

Albertbridge Accordion '“ a band defined by one man, but certainly not a one-man...

Self-confessed child abuser Henry Clarke

Paedophile who escaped prosecution abused boys at three NI care homes

The new halls at Carnmoney Presbyterian Church. INNT 34-806CON

IN PICTURES: Â£2.5m development at Carnmoney Presbyterian Church set to open

David Catherwood

Dual carriageway cycle victim was '˜extraordinary' Christian, funeral hears

Members from the Belfast Battalion of The Boys Brigade as they parade through Belfast

Big Boys' Brigade battalion takes to streets in force

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