Alex.Kane
@AlexKane221b
Newspaper columnist and political commentator for BBC/UTV/RTE radio and TV. For commissions, events,speaking engagements etc: [email protected]
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01-07-2012 21:45:43
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. UK Covid-19 Inquiry As it breaks for lunch legal teams have laid bare NI was not ready for the pandemic; the political infighting affected decision making; Robin Swann felt marginalised ; the CMo Sir Micael McBide referred to the NI Executive as “dysfunctional bastards”.
It’s truly an honour to have been selected by my party to be the next Lord Mayor of Belfast in June.
This is a significant moment for the LGBTQ+ community, as I step into a role which has never represented us before.
I look forward to getting stuck in!
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TUESDAY 30-4-24 HEADLINES…… ALL SCHOOLS WARNED ON ‘SEXTORTION EPIDEMIC’……. INQUESTS INTO 11 KILLINGS ARE HALTED ON EVE OF LEGACY ACT…… IRISH MINISTER SET TO PROPOSE‘RETURNING’ MIGRANTS WHO ARRIVED VIA NI….. PM HAS NO INTEREST IN MIGRANT RETURN DEAL…. #BuyANewspaper
Here’s the piece from the Belfast Telegraph last week celebrating 40 years of Brett and Joan Hickson. We all have a favourite Holmes and Marple—these two are mine. And I really must get around to writing a Holmes pastiche set in Belfast in the 1880s/90s
Thanks to Robbie Butler MLA for highlighting the disproportionate impact of loneliness on unpaid carers. Nearly 1 in 3 carers in Northern Ireland say they feel lonely always or often and issues like access to replacement care and financial strain are big drivers of that.
Tickets are on sale for our 31st Crime Fiction Weekend! Guest of Honour Elly Griffiths & speakers inc Mark Billingham Richard Coles Erin Kelly #TheHouseOfMirrors Kia Abdullah Doug Johnstone Saima Mir Harriet Evans moonlighting #DisforDeath Lucie Whitehouse Jake Lamar
9-11 Aug in Oxford & online
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Please join me in congratulating my baby sister Councillor Lilian Seenoi Cllr. Lilian Seenoi Barr (MRS BARR)-SDLP for being elected as the first black - Maasai Mayor of the City of Derry , Northern Ireland , United Kingdom. belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-… may the good lord open many doors for you as you lead your…
MONDAY 29-4-24 HEADLINES…… IRISH MOVE TO SEND MIGRANTS BACK TO UK…… UK REJECTS DUBLIN’S MIGRANT RETURN BID……. UK WON’T TAKE BACK MIGRANTS…… TIME FOR ACTION…… DIABETES CARE HIT BY INSULIN SHORTAGES …..DEPRESSED AND ANXIOUS FACE LOSING THEIR BENEFIT…… #BuyANewspaper