Belfast

Perhaps more than ever before, this year’s Oscar nominees are living on streaming platforms. Multiple films from the nominations lineup originated on streamers—Netflix has The Power of the Dog and Don’t Look Up, while Apple TV+ enters the race with CODA and The Tragedy of Macbeth. As such, it’s never…

International kickboxing returns to Northern Ireland on Saturday, April 23 with the next edition of “Made in Prokick” events presented by Billy Murray. The fight card titled “Kickboxing Prospex” takes place at Stormont Hotel in Belfast featuring a series of bouts with the rising stars, newbies and novice fighters. Advertisements…

When Brian Roche was appointed director of IT at George Best Belfast City Airport (BCA) in November 2019, it was a first for him personally and the business. An experienced IT professional who had previously worked in consulting and in senior roles for technology firms, Roche took his first IT…

A 75-year-old grandmother has died after being struck by a council bin lorry while she was walking along a road in Belfast on her way to buy a newspaper. Police have named the victim, who had been in a critical condition in hospital since the incident on Thursday but who…

Long-serving St John Ambulance volunteer Valmai Dempsey is the 2022 Senior Australian of the Year. The ACT woman has been recognised for her efforts responding to the Black Summer bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic. The 71-year-old has dedicated more than 50 years to St John Ambulance after starting as a cadet…

A 65-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating the killing of Mark Hall in Belfast. Mr Hall (31) was shot through the window of his family’s west Belfast home last month. The 65-year-old was arrested in Belfast on Sunday and taken to a custody suite for questioning on suspicion…

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Ashers Bakery, in Belfast, has won a seven-year-long legal case against Gareth Lee. Lee requested they bake him a cake decorated with the slogan “support gay marriage.” The cake was also meant to have images of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie. Lee is an LGBTQI activist. He was…

Kenneth Branagh on the set of Belfast. Photo: Rob Youngson/B) 2021 Focus Features, LLC. With the idea of the future losing much of its luster, many of us spent the COVID era thinking about the past. But few took it as far as Kenneth Branagh, who used his sudden downtime…

“Belfast” opens, literally, with a bang. Kenneth Branagh’s memoir film of his childhood in Northern Ireland begins with a brief modern-day prologue and then thrusts us into the world of 9-year-old Branagh-avatar Buddy (newcomer Jude Hill). The date is August 15, 1969, and Buddy is playing with his friends in…