A NEW wellbeing programme aimed at tackling the impact of loneliness and isolation on older peoples’ health launches in Belfast next month. belfastmedia.com/with-the-rig...

Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding belfastmedia.com/breastival-n...

Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding

BREASTIVAL is back and celebrating a decade of encouragement and support for breastfeeding.

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NEW: Claire Mitchell: People call us useful idiots, Sinn Féin puppets, self-hating Prods. We prefer ‘happy Lundys’ None of us think that Northern Ireland is working or can be made to work. 100+ years is a long enough experiment www.irishnews.com/opinion/clai...

And some wonder why I put together a quality, thoughtful women led, non Jeremy Kyle style, discussion for #feile26. Come join Claire Hanna, Claire Mitchell, Linzi McLaren and I on Thursday. More Claires than men, what?! All welcome.

I worked with the BBC Alba team to make this ‘Through Three Nations’ Eòrpa programme exploring the constitutional question in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Check it out. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Eòrpa - Series 34: 4. Through Three Nations

For the first time, nationalist parties lead the governments of Scotland & Wales, while Northern Ireland has a nationalist First Minister. Join Michael MacNeil as he travels through the three nations.

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My latest byline in today’s Tele. Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/p...

Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson

Safeguarding expert echoes concerns of survivors’ group over INEQE ‘conflict of interest’

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An honour to facilitate a NI Survivor Council ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ event at Féile 26. NISC co-founders, Michelle Duffy, Amanda Brown, Haileigh Ashton Lamont and Nikella Holmes, presenting their latest research findings and insights on CSA, barriers to justice, reforms, support services.

Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences www.reuters.com/world/uk/jur...

Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences

The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was found guilty on Monday of historic child sex ​offences against two women when they were children in one ‌of the h...

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EXCL: Hearing from multiple sources tonight that the government is moving at pace to announce the long-promised ban on so-called conversion therapy in the coming days. The ban was first pledged by Theresa May but got caught up in complexities with regards to gender identity.

For an on-the-ground insight into the race riots in Northern Ireland I’ve been speaking with @amanda.ie - worth a listen:

The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense@bunkerpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What really triggered the horrific race riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month? Belfast-based journalist @amanda.ie was on the ground as violence unfolded, she gives @gavinesler.bsky.social her eyewitness account. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

What really triggered the horrific race riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month? Belfast-based journalist @amanda.ie was on the ground as violence unfolded, she gives @gavinesler.bsky.social her eyewitness account. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

@amanda.ie discusses the increase of riots with a racial element in Northern Ireland, saying that concern over immigration policy is "no justification to burn people out of their homes". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.

Speaking with Áine on #RTETWIP today, journalist @amanda.ie discussed the #Belfast riots, the involvement of paramilitaries, and the influence of "online characters". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.

Tomorrow on #RTÉTwip, @aine-lawlor.bsky.social will be joined by Minister of State Seán Canney, Sinn Féin TD @matt-carthy.bsky.social, Social Democrats TD @sineadgibney.bsky.social, and journalist @amanda.ie. Tune in tomorrow at midday on @rteone.rte.ie! #Belfast #EUPresidency #Migration

NEW: I was covering Newry court earlier. The judge determined Eleanor Donaldson is unfit to be tried, on medical grounds. She will now to face a trial of the facts. Judge deciding tomorrow the process for this, and Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial. Proceedings on course for next week.

Join Roderic O’Gorman TD, Nina Briggs and Maureen Hamblin, for an honest conversation Green Party NI conference about facing down the far right. Chaired by me! www.greenpartyni.org/green_party_...

"The rights of one minority should not be curtailed in order to accommodate those of another in a united Ireland.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Irish language should not be 'bargaining chip' for united Ireland

A new report says Irish language speakers should be

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NEW: Divided Kingdom - pro independence parties surge across Britain www.reuters.com/world/uk/div...

A divided kingdom: pro-independence parties surge across Britain

Three of the United Kingdom's four nations are set for the first time to be governed by pro-independence parties after elections on Friday which nationalists said marked the death knell of the centuri...

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‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of ‘conversion therapy’ Read: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/this-is... Thanks to Dr Gareth Patterson, Eoin Tennyson, Mal O’Hara and Scott Cuthbertson for the chats.

‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of conversion therapy

Doctor from Presbyterian background damning of church’s shortcomings when dealing with gay men

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Fab couple of days working in Dublin. I was speaking at the Royal Irish Academy on a European Movement Ireland panel. www.europeanmovement.ie/press-releas...

Sorry for the absence. I got logged out and only logging back in!

North Belfast ones. And those who wish they were north Belfast ones. Go visit Matthew (and Keith) at the Parakeet coffee cart beside Iceland on the Antrim Road. Established coffee is the biz and that cinnamon bun was next level. Opening hours here: instagram.com/parakeet.coffee

Happy 16th journalism anniversary to me! Look at her. She’s only a child. At 7am on April 5, 2010 I arrived into the Tele newsroom on Royal Avenue/Little Donegall Street for my first day as a reporter.  You can read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

Having a creme egg and a cup of tea for breakfast. Not even sorry. Model’s ‘I am Kenough’ hooded top belongs to her boyfriend. Looking forward to fish from Longs at lunchtime and a hopefully news free long weekend. Happy Good Friday. Have a lovely Easter. #goodvibesonly

Fantastic evening mesmerised by the length of @lenniesaurus.bsky.social hair, & her noble, magnificent & unashamedly rhyming #poetry. Part of @imaginebelfast.bsky.social, Len was interviewed by @amanda.ie who was kind enough to let me ask a question. Enjoying the poyums very much indeed.

Rest in peace, Naomi x www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Tributes paid to Belfast activist after death: ‘I doubt she had a grasp of how much she changed so many people’s lives’ | Belfast Telegraph

Tributes have been paid to a prominent Belfast activist and feminist advocate following her death on Thursday, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.

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PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher speaking to a Westminster committee about violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland “There seems to be an acceptance around misogyny the like of which I’ve not seen. We have to draw a line and say this is not acceptable.” #ENDVAWG

These men think it's just a bit of knockabout fun, but looking down on women, even in this "harmless" way, gives the idea that women are only to be tolerated and not taken seriously. With yet another woman murdered, people with influence should reflect on the societal impact of their attitudes.

Someone in the TUV thought a pen mocking Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw was a good idea. #TUV26 #ENDVAWG

REUTERS CITY MEMO Belfast like a local Our reporter’s guide to living history, wearable art, and creamy pints By Amanda Ferguson www.reuters.com/city-memo/be...

Belfast like a local

Belfast is an inviting city with an edge. It's the capital of a post-conflict society that has built a thriving tourist industry over the last three decades. While there is huge interest in Belfast's ...

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