Four months ago I moved to Belfast from Gap in France, writes Jeff Vachier. Coming to live in Northern Ireland was a chance to meet people from here – and discover more about this place and its way of life…. One of the things that...

“I sat glowing”; “It was like watching pure gold melting” – Eddie Spence searches for words to do justice to the moment when his west Belfast community garden project scooped the top accolade at a City Council award ceremony.   The Brighter Belfast Awards celebrate...

Every day I park my car a few minutes walk from university. I’m pretty sure the walk from my car into class is one of the most enjoyable I will ever get to experience, writes Hannah Stewart, and here is why…  Along part of the...

I believe in the power of words; their ability to speak into someone’s life – to change people’s stories actually – to communicate hope and life, writes Luke Williams. I’d love to see our city become home to new words – new stories – and best...

They stared wide-eyed into a computer screen – facing ‘the other community’ for the first time – asking questions they’d never uttered before – hearing answers that would change their lives. Interface Diaries is a project which brings groups of teenagers from across divides in...

They were ten teenage girls from Antrim who signed up to a training course on human trafficking.  She was a young woman from Poland whose life had been horribly interrupted by the sex industry. They were unsure about what the programme would involve and how...

She was a young Austrian Jew sent to Northern Ireland by her parents to escape the hell of the Holocaust… But for Gertrude Warmington a new life could never equal a brand new start… How could a young girl ever find release from the hideous...

They huddled under umbrellas which couldn’t seem to fend off the swirling rain as they stood beside a Belfast round-about and sang Christmas carols.  Cars swished past them.  Takeaways were ordered and collected in the chip shop opposite.  Life seemed to pass them by.  It...

It was a former ice-cream shop – that then lay derelict – before volunteers in Carnmoney transformed it into a thrift shop, which hands out free school uniforms and food hampers to struggling families. “The whole intention,” says Paul Elliot who has been involved in...

The girls had never worn formal dresses before; the guys had never cruised about town in a limo.  But then a truly Cinderella story unfolded as a north coast community got behind an idea to organise a formal for the young people of Sandelford Special...