Dusk was falling, offices were emptying as workers headed home on a damp and drizzly night, but laughter sounded from an interface area in the west of the city - as young people dreamt about a Belfast without walls.
Sixteen year old Rachel says the ‘peace walls’ have always been part of her life: “You grow [...]
Up Against the Wall
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Believing in a Better Belfast
Monday, November 2, 2009
Naomi Long is buzzing. It’s the day of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to Belfast and she has back-to-back meetings and engagements. But she’s not complaining: “I entered politics to get involved. I could see what was wrong out there and I want to make a difference. I love this city… I love what I [...]
When Faceless Enemies Become Friends
Friday, October 16, 2009
For almost forty days now his feet have stood on ‘divided’ ground, his eyes have peered upon the comings and goings of two separate communities, and yet it seems that the longer he watches the more those divides seem to melt away.
Gripping a stark wooden cross Pastor Jack McKee, of New Life City Church has [...]
Loving Belfast…at Summer Madness
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Ideas ranged from Doorsteps sandwich chain, to the Belfast Wheel, to the Northern Irish sense of humour; just some of the responses scrawled on the Tell It In Colour ‘Love Belfast’ wall at this year’s Summer Madness festival.
TIIC went along to Ireland’s largest youth festival at the King’s Hall in Belfast from the 3rd to [...]
The Good News Lady
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
She was a little old lady from Sheffield with thoughts of retiring, but then life redirected her to Belfast where she found a passion for good news in a city more familiar with the bad…
Margaret Walker, now 83, was contemplating life after retirement when she felt God call her to west Belfast. She was watching [...]
A People’s Person
Friday, April 10, 2009
We’re so quick to categorise people, whether they are single mums, drugs addicts…and yet behind the headlines there is a real desperate need in each one to be loved and to be forgiven.






Spark is a shared outreach vision between the churches of Ballymena which aims to show love ...