TRIBUTES have been paid to West Belfast solicitor Pádraigín Drinan who passed away on Saturday at the age of 75, after suffering a cardiac seizure. Ms Drinan was a strong advocate of human rights and represented residents at Garvaghy Road, Ormeau Road and Springfield Road in their opposition to Orange Order marches. She also worked with various women’s groups including the Falls Women’s Centre and the Rape Crisis Centre. As a school pupil, the Glen Road woman garnered a keen interest in politics and having joined the Irish Republican Labour Party she was quickly appointed as their party secretary. In an interview with Northern Visions at the time of her retirement, she joked that she was the only person she knew who skipped school to go to Stormont. As a student at Queen’s University, Pádraigín became a leading figure in the People’s Democracy and her commitment to the delivery of civil rights stayed with her throughout her life.
i have played extraordinary matches under unbelievable circumstances. but wimbledon tied my whole life together. as we join the action in the first set ashe is upsetting the form book. superstar sir arthur ashe. carry me back but to old virginia that s where the cotton coming up black in the south in the city which was the old capital of the confederacy, see big statues of stone wall jefferson, robert e. lee. i had to sit behind the white line on the bus. i had to ride in black taxis. went to black schools. i went to black churches. we lived on a black playground.
i had to sit behind the white line on the bus. i had to ride in black taxis. went to black schools. i went to black churches. we lived on a black playground. my father was a caretaker of the largest playground for blacks in richmond, virginia. the house came with the job on the playground and four tennis courts were just ten yards away. literally, ten yards away. i remember i asked him, you know, we live on the playground, we ve got all of these sports all around us, why do you want to play tennis? he said to me, i want to be the jackie robinson of tennis. tennis happened to suit me mentally. that was almost serendipity in a way. i would begin right there in the playground.
By Robert Eringer Man receiving vaccine from a medical professional. Full disclosure: I took the “Fauci-ouchies.” But not until the very day that the Pfizer vaccine got FDA approved. (Before that, Pfizer and the other COVID-19 vaccines were merely “experimental” and all who took them were human lab rats.) I hadn’t planned to; […]