COLUMN: Clarissa Long explains it all
The enormous Queen’s University with its silent students and swapping those short New York minutes for Belfast hours - I love New York City. I love walking in a group of hundreds of people, like we’re one great pack of sheep. I love the lights, the ambulances, yes, even the ‘New York Minute’ mentality. So why did I come here to Belfast? I wanted a change of scene. I’m someone who definitely likes being in their comfort zone, but I also think it’s really important to get out sometimes and live a little. BY CLARISSA LONG
March 8th, 2010 | Comment (1)
SPORT: Luck of the euro draw for Ireland?
The draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign took place on 7th February and has left Northern Ireland facing a mammoth battle for qualification. The north face current World Cup champions Italy, Serbia and Slovenia, Estonia and the Faroe Islands. Nigel Worthington commented, “I would rather play the bigger nations because from a player’s point of view to get up for those games is not so much of a problem.” His optimism, however, is questionable considering Northern Ireland’s recent run of bad form. BY JULIE MCCULLAGH
March 8th, 2010 | Comment (1)
FEATURE: How easy is it for a QUB student to get cocaine?
Pages 4 and 5 of ‘The Times’ today report on the rise in popularity of cocaine, stating that users in the 16-24 year-old age bracket have rocketed fivefold in the past 13 years. One user says: “Cocaine might be dangerous in the way that your average ‘Daily Mail’ reader thinks, but it’s really not that bad.” What do you think? Have you ever been offered cocaine, or any other drug, on the student social scene in Belfast?
March 6th, 2010 | Comments (6)
LETTER: Re Holylands
Liaison, It is officially BBQ season (again!). The sunshine encourages excess alcohol from lunchtime onwards. The streets, that BCC spend so much of Belfast tax/ratepayers money cleaning, are a mess of papers, bottles, broken glass, litter, broken furniture and the remnents of fires/BBQ’s etc. Some fine examples of this constructive behaviour can be seen at:-
(*streets in Holylands)
March 6th, 2010 | Comments (16)
REVIEW: Little Moscow
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN www.queensfilmtheatre.org.uk
Little Moscow (Mala Moskwa) is the opening film of the QFT’s current Polish film festival – Kinoteka On Tour 4. Directed by Waldemar Krzystek, it’s the story of marital infidelity and troubled occupation in Legnica, the Soviet headquarters in Poland between 1945 and 1990, known as ‘Little Moscow’. Wiera (Svetlana Khodchenkova), the beautiful wife of Russian commander Jura (Dmitri Ulyanov), isn’t in Legnica long before she is wooed by Polish officer Michal (Leslaw Zurek). The affair has unfortunate consequences, flying in the face of the awkward Russian-Polish relations, which emphasize acceptance but not fraternization.
March 6th, 2010 | No Comments
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