Letters
Eagles concert turns sour for wheelchair users
Like thousands of other fans I had a great time at the Odyssey in Belfast at
The Eagles concert last Monday evening.
Comment: 1
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Appalled by Israeli seizure of aid boat
Saturday, 4 July 2009
I am appalled at the seizure of a humanitarian aid shipment by Israeli
gunboats in international water and the forcible detention of 21 peace
activists, including Nobel Prize winner, Mairead Maguire.
Comments: 3
Cigarettes are too dangerous
Saturday, 4 July 2009
I have just written to the new Secretary of State for health, Andy Burnham MP,
demanding a total ban on cigarette vending machines
Comments: 2
Flushed with good facilities
Friday, 3 July 2009
With reference to Michael Gregory’s appeal to Belfast City Council to provide
more public toilet facilities (Write Back, June 26), I’d like to assure
members of the public that we are committed to providing high
quality-facilities in the city, and do.
Comment: 1
Creationists explained
Friday, 3 July 2009
Edwin Poots and others in the DUP may be Young Earth Creationists, but they
are still just a faction within Creationism.
Comments: 4
No sign of the hatred here
Friday, 3 July 2009
In respect to your article (June 24) regarding the Novena at Clonard Monastry,
what a lovely sight to see so many denominations attending and three
Shankill Road ministers preaching.
Comment: 1
Listening to stories has a place to play
Friday, 3 July 2009
Malachi O’Doherty’s Comment piece in this newspaper of June 30 examines the
NIO’s consultation on the Eames-Bradley recommendations and makes a number
of comments regarding that process and indeed this Commission’s role within
the proposed Legacy Commission.
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Anger at attacks on migrant workers is plain hypocrisy
Thursday, 2 July 2009
The intimidation of the Romanian migrant workers in the Village in south
Belfast has been widely reported in the media.
Comments: 9
Vote for none of the above
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Now the European Election is behind us, can I make a suggestion to the
Electoral Registrar.
Comments: 10
Trying to find old friends
Thursday, 2 July 2009
I’m trying to trace a couple of student friends who attended the BA Humanities
course at Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough, from 1977 to 1980.
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We are paying a big pen-alty
Thursday, 2 July 2009
I’d like to voice my complete disgust at recent revelations regarding MPs’
expenses and in particular the claim made by Iris Robinson for a £300 pen.
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Old mantra is not the best
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Why is it that governments and political parties always say that they must go
back and talk to their constituents whenever they have had a bad election
result?
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Adams begs question of how America can create united Ireland
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
During Sinn Fein’s second US Unity Forum, on June 27 in San Francisco, Gerry
Adams stated that “Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland.”
Comments: 19
Positive side of many cultures
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
In light of the broken windows and homes and racial attacks in Belfast it is
good to see a positive counterweight in north Belfast.
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Making a date with history
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
I was planning a visit to the much-acclaimed Boyne Hertigage Centre in Co
Meath and found the website introduction had a glaring mistake.
Comments: 6
Search is on for my family
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
I have lost touch with one side of my family — my father’s sister (Alice
Sinton) married George Cowie in Eyemouth, Scotland in 1920.
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Racist attacks have no place in multi-cultural future of our province
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
I, like many, have been appalled and outraged by the racist attacks in south
Belfast.
Comments: 8
Toilets plea for the disabled
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
As a supporter of the Changing Places campaign, I think it a disgrace that
Belfast city council doesn’t provide enough public toilets for those with
severe disabilities and their carers. One is far from enough.
Comment: 1
Airport not a big problem
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
I have read today another story, this time from Rosetta, complaining about the
George Best City Airport.
Comments: 9
Hospitality is credit to peace process
Monday, 29 June 2009
Wow! What a transformation. In the 20-odd years since I last spent any
significant time in Belfast and, indeed, Northern Ireland, the place has
undergone a transformation that wouldn’t have been thinkable when I was last
there.
Comments: 2
Stormont just for Belfast?
Monday, 29 June 2009
What do Nelson McCausland, Sammy Wilson, Robin Newton, Sir Reg Empey and Chris
McGimpsey have in common apart from being members of the Executive?
Comments: 4
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.U2 Album Poll
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
 2% |
| How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb |
 3% |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind |
5% |
| Pop |
1% |
| Zooropa |
1% |
| Achtung Baby |
19% |
| Rattle and Hum |
8% |
| The Joshua Tree |
50% |
| The Unforgettable Fire |
4% |
| Under a Blood Red Sky |
6% |
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