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Amanda Ferguson

Belfast

Journalist, Writer and Host at Freelance

✨North Belfast woman. Reasonable. Fancy. Freelance journalist c2010. Northern/Ireland editor. Writer. Talker. Events. Give Inc Women’s Fund, & @wimbelfast✨

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  • Meet the Antrim writer whose book influenced Angelina Jolie movie: ‘I was scared because the fans are intense’

    1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Amanda Ferguson

    Meet the Antrim writer whose book influenced Angelina Jolie movie: ‘I was scared because the fans are intense’Writer Lyndsy Spence takes time out from working on Vivien Leigh movie to help launch Ballyscullion Park Book Festival Lyndsy Spence (Photo by Luke Jervis/Belfast Telegraph)Antrim author and screenwriter Lyndsy Spence is never sure how far her books about interesting women will reach.

  • Laughs guaranteed at City Hall’s New Ireland comedy show

    1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Amanda Ferguson

    Conor Grimes and Alan McKee’s lighthearted play imagines how unified island could lookA New Ireland play set in the 2030s is coming to Belfast City Hall on April 26. Comedy duo Conor Grimes and Alan McKee will transport guests to a time “when the north and the south have voted yes in a referendum” as part of their efforts to raise funds for Belfast charity Show Some Love.

  • Humanist celebrant’s bid to end the hard border for love

    1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Amanda Ferguson

    Humanist celebrant’s bid to end the hard border for loveLaw prevents Belfast man from marrying couples in the RepublicMichael Conlon at his home (Luke Jervis/Belfast Telegraph)Humanist celebrant Michael Conlon is on a mission to end the “land border for love”. Priests, ministers, pastors and independent church members from Northern Ireland are free to conduct legal marriages in the Republic of Ireland, but humanist celebrants are not.

  • Belfast teen combines learning and earning as an apprentice accountant

    1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Amanda Ferguson

    Belfast teen combines learning and earning as an apprentice accountant Award winner works at the Audit Office four days a week and spends one day in collegeConnie Foley (Photograph by William Cherry/PressEye)Working and learning at the same time is the perfect combination for east Belfast woman Connie Foley. The 19-year-old was recently shortlisted for a public sector apprentice of the year award, and enjoyed the Department for the Economy celebration ceremony at Belfast City Hall.

  • Rugby Road: South Belfast residents fight back over tarmac fears on famous film street

    2 months ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Amanda Ferguson

    Campaigner Bronagh Hinds says she has been among a group taking direct action “to stop workmen from smashing up paving stones and laying tarmac”Peace process heroine and veteran feminist activist Bronagh Hinds is battling the Department for Infrastructure over pavements and roads outside her south Belfast home. Ms Hinds is originally from north Belfast but has lived on Rugby Road for 50 years.

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