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North Belfast: Constituents banging windows and kicking doors as Sinn Féin office 'overwhelmed' by charity demand

Constituents have been banging windows and kicking doors at a north Belfast Sinn Féin office which has become “overwhelmed” by demand for a charity scheme, an MLA for the area has said.

North Belfast charity helping local kids with school meals during winter months

Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney statues: Planning permission submitted for statues of two Belfast women at City Hall

Planning permission has been submitted for statues of Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney at Belfast City Hall.

Old Belfast street signs continue to inspire but face threat

Streets of Belfast: historian Jason Burke examines connections and coincidences associated with Donegall Street

In the days when touring circuses such as Clara ‘Ma’ Copley’s would pitch their marquees at Chapel Fields, the entertainment, it is said, would include a ‘question time’ segment consisting of conundrums for the audience. One such conundrum was posed, as Cathal O’Byrne tells us: “Why is Donegall Street like a spendthrift? Because it begins with a bank and ends with the Poor House.” It’s true that it was, at one time, bookended by Belfast Commercial Bank at the lower end and by the Belfast Charitable Society’s Poor House at the other. Despite being referred to, perhaps unfairly, as “the bleakest street in the bleak north” by Belfast physician and United Irishman Dr William Drennan, Donegall Street was once a commercial hub for the growing town of Belfast.