At it's July monthly meeting, Belfast City Council agreed to provide £70,000 funding for next year's St Patrick's day carnival in Belfast. The move follows complaints in February when the council voted not to overturn a decision refusing to grant f… more »

Gay couples registering for civil partnerships at Lisburn Council will not be allowed to use the wedding room following a move from Alliance councillor Seamus Close. While gay rights groups cried 'discrimination,' Close claims the move simply draws a di… more »

Alasdair McDonnell is meeting with the police today regarding his favourite issue - flags. McDonnell, still trying to tie the flags to loyalist paramilitarism, said "The police have been left in no doubt that loyalist bunting and flags are extremely unpo… more »

Those of you who followed my Election 2005 Blog may have noticed that I'm not the DUP's biggest fan and disagreed with their new Belfast City councillor Christopher Stalford on a semi-regular basis. Just to show that there's no hard feelings, it's n… more »

A 50 year-old woman collapsed in her home last night in the republican Glenalina area of west Belfast. Ambulance crews alerted the PSNI, whose officers then found her in her kitchen, unconscious. They began to resuscitate her with a defibrillator and CTR… more »

Easyjet launches 5 new routes from Belfast today, flying to Rome, Berlin, Geneva, Palma (Mallorca) and Inverness. This means that 19 destinations in total will now be served, by easyJet, from Belfast International Airport (unfortunately not including Mal… more »

60 bikers took part in a ride along the Ards peninsula last night to raise funds for the family of Lisa Dorrian, murdered on 28th February (many blame the LVF). The bikers stopped at the site where the girl was abducted from a caravan park in Ballyhalber… more »

Funnily enough, I'd been thinking either last night or this morning about this. If the men and women in power in Scotland deride sectarianism so much - why put up with the mass influx of bigots that occurrs every time Rangers and Celtic play? If the club… more »

Get an Xbox 360 for $1 with FreeBidder (recommended) or free with ScreenSelect As explained in my weekend roundup, some members of Orlaith McAllister's family don't seem to have been overly chuffed at her entrance to the Big Brother house. Having been p… more »

The SDLP* have raised concern about a number of flags put up on lamp posts along the Lisburn Road last night. Apparently a number of men put up Union Flags and Northern Ireland flags along the road and the SDLP have claimed that they should be taken down… more »