Review: Belfast Ella Buckley interrogates the romanticism and nostalgia permeating Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age tale set in Troubles-stricken Northern Ireland. For a young child growing up in Northern Ireland during the late 60s and early 70s, the conflict happening on your front doorstep was, apparently, not the most important thing to you. Reruns of […]
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Success for Northern Ireland’s Gay Marriage Reforms
Lucy Aylmer gives us a run-down of the history of gay rights in Northern Ireland after landmark same-sex marriage takes place in Belfast.
Brexit, Northern Ireland & the DUP
Perhaps the most exhausted quotation in modern poetry is W.B Yeats: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the land”. It begins Patrick Cockburn’s book Chaos & the Caliphate. It is woven throughout Thomas Pynchon’s epic Gravity’s Rainbow, and has served title for books on madness to collections of wildlife […]
The comprehensive lowdown on the World Cup Play-offs
W ith Gareth Southgate safely guiding England through to our 14th World Cup, our attentions are now drawn to the playoffs to see who else will have a shot at footballing glory as well as taking a look at those who have missed out. Home Nations Disappointment Despite Wales being ranked as the 14th best […]
Making sense of the Northern Ireland Assembly Election
With the unpredictable political landscapes of the US and the UK looming in the background, the people of Northern Ireland desperately need a government which will represent them and their interests fully. Unfortunately, it is likely that the election taking place this week will result in the same internal bickering and fallouts that have come […]
GB Olympic Football? No thanks
It’s summer, it’s a leap year, and that can only mean one thing: the Olympics are right around the corner. The Olympics are a time when people take a look at sports they never normally would give a second thought to – suddenly, everyone is an expert at the triple jump, archery or gymnastics. To the […]
Euro 2016 – Round of 16 Preview
Switzerland v Poland Saturday 25 June, 14:00 BST, Saint-Etienne. BBC1 The Round of 16 will get underway with two as-of-yet unbeaten teams at the Stade Geoffrey Guichard, with Group A runners-up Switzerland meeting their Group C counterparts, Poland. Switzerland have made it to this stage having taken three points against Albania and recording a draw […]