World news | The GuardianNorthern Ireland leads surge in fuel prices since start of Iran war https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/03/fuel-prices-northern-ireland-surge-iran-war-petrol #PetrolPrices #Money #Motoring #NorthernIreland #UkNews #Business #UkCostOfLivingCrisis
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD#Unionist #JohnJamesSomerville placed a bomb in the window of a #Catholic home in #Dungannon, #CountyTyrone, #NorthernIreland, in 1973 on #ThisDayInHistory, because the family grocery refused to serve soldiers. No-one was killed. Somerville later became an #evangelical minister.
Panorama of the MountainsBook Review: Factory Girls by Michelle Galen
Author: Michelle Galen
Title: Factory Girls
Narrator: Amy Molloy
Publication Info: Hachette Audio, 2022
Summary/Review:
Set in a small town in the north of Ireland in the summer of 1994, Factory Girls is the story of 18-year-old Maeve Murray. While waiting for her exam results, Maeve joins her friends working at the local shirt factory, hoping at the end of the summer she’ll be able to leave for London to study journalism. Sharp-witted and outspoken, Maeve finds herself side-by-side with Protestants for the first time as well as in the middle of the class conflict between university-bound people like herself and the working class people who make their living at the factory. But the events of the novel lead to increasing solidarity among the workers against “Handy Andy” Strawbridge, the unscrupulous English factory owner, who Maeve nevertheless finds herself attracted to.
The setting of young women in the 1990s trying to go about their everyday lives and figure out their futures against the existential threat of The Troubles brings to mind immediate comparisons to Derry Girls. And there are similarities, but the humor in Factory Girls feels more grounded in real life than the goofiness of Derry Girls. It also can be more serious in tone, dealing with issues such as the death of her older sister and other heartbreaks. And a flashback scene in which Maeve’s mother has to wash shattered glass off her children following a bombing is memorable for the matter-of-fact way she knows how to deal with what should be an extraordinary circumstance. The ending has a dark twist, but remains hopeful.
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Rating: ***1/2
NewsletterTFSTORM DAVE LOOMS OVER EASTER WEEKEND WITH POTENTIALLY DISRUPTIVE WINDS AND SNOW
Storm Dave brings strong winds up to 90mph and heavy snow to Scotland and Northern Ireland this Easter weekend. Travel disruption and power cuts expected.
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Storm Dave is bringing winds up to 90mph and up to 20cm of snow to Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is much stronger than usual for this time of year.
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Dnote • best of art in IrelandShows etc. continuing this week
#Art #ArtIreland #ArtNorthernIreland #Ireland #NorthernIreland #MastoDaoine
Backpack and SnorkelBotanic Gardens are a public park since 1895 and its most well-known feature is the Palm House conservatory from 1840. How did you like it? #NorthernIreland # Belfast https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day16/#5i164
Backpack and SnorkelBotanic Gardens are a public park since 1895 and its most well-known feature is the Palm House conservatory from 1840. How did you like it? #NorthernIreland # Belfast https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day16/#5i164
FirdaYet another fairy door at Slieve Gullion Forest Park in Northern Ireland.
The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & EntertainmentStorm Dave snow forecast as Brits urged to prepare nine items for Saturday
