News - belfast
belfast's licensing laws need shaken up: Lord Mayor Niall O’Donnghaile
18 May 2012, 7:16 pm
The Lord Mayor of
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‘Riveting’ study at belfast Central School
18 May 2012, 3:08 pm
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VIDEO: From prison to belfast distillery
18 May 2012, 8:17 am
A notorious
belfast prison that held IRA inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian troubles is to be transformed into a whiskey distillery.
Report into smoke in cabin flight
18 May 2012, 7:40 am
EasyJet and
belfast International Airport respond to a report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch into an emergency evacuation.
belfast's Titanic Lockdown music festival scrapped
17 May 2012, 11:32 pm
A major music festival due to take place in
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Notorious belfast prison reinvented as distillery
17 May 2012, 11:39 am
belfast (Reuters) - A notorious
belfast prison that held Irish Republican Army inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian strife is to be transformed into a Whiskey distillery as Northern Ireland tries to reinvent itself and its struggling economy. A wing of the Victorian-era Crumlin Road prison, which closed in 1996, will house the first whiskey production in 75 years in a city that was ...
