Gillian Halliday

Here’s what's happening around Northern Ireland.

Dr Kieran Connell, a historian at Queen’s University, witnessed first-hand the violence in August 2024 that erupted from the anti-immigration protests in Belfast city centre when businesses were attacked in the Botanic Avenue area under the shadow of the most unlikely of alliances — an Irish tricolour and Union flag held aloft side-by-side.

Arriving back in Belfast after a lovely day out to the North Coast, grabbing some food was on the agenda, and Charlie’s Pizza in the south of the city had long been on our ‘must-try’ list.

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Not too long into our interview, Diona Doherty contemplates on comedy’s innate ability to be cathartic — and for the Derry comic and actor, it’s very personal. She says: “When I started the IVF process to have my kids, I immediately started writing down notes for jokes in the airport on the way to the Czech Republic to do the IVF, because I was like, ‘I got to make this money back’. And also I wanted to be able to make light of it.

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Ray Bonner is known on the urban art street scene as Francois Got Buffed. He is one of Belfast’s best-known artists and showcases his work at the annual Hit the Streets art festival.