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A WEST Belfast youth worker is set to enjoy four life changing days of knowledge-sharing and networking as the world’s largest gathering of future leaders takes place next month. ....
Shankill, Twinbrook, Turf Lodge and East Belfast youth unite for sexual harassment awareness campaign belfastlive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from belfastlive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Story and photographs by Kara Fox, CNN Niamh Burns is organizing a special 20-year reunion for her schoolmates this year. But while the accomplishments of the “Courageous Classes of 2001” are worth celebrating, the date they are commemorating is not. Over the course of 12 weeks in 2001, Burns and the other pupils at north Belfast’s Holy Cross Girls’ primary were subjected to a barrage of abuse from a group of loyalist Protestants blocking their path to the school gate. The unrest, reported on globally at the time, began during the last week of the summer term, before violence exploded on the children’s return to school in the fall. An angry mob threw urine-filled balloons and, eventually, a pipe bomb as children some as young as five ran the gauntlet each day to get to class. ....
Covid-19: Young people in NI ask Stormont for more support By Jayne McCormack Published It hasn t exactly been the easiest year to be a young person. Managing the usual challenges of study, work, family and finding their place in the world have been complicated by the pandemic, placing plans for the future on hold. Getting answers to some of the issues they re most concerned about from those in power hasn t always been simple. A planned press conference fronted by the first and deputy first ministers to take questions exclusively from young people was cancelled months ago - it has yet to be rescheduled. ....