Suzanne Mcgonagle

Feb 26, 2025 | msn.com | Suzanne Mcgonagle

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Feb 26, 2025 | irishnews.com | Suzanne Mcgonagle

Belfast’s Assembly Rooms has been recognised as a “site of exceptional cultural and historical significance” amid continued calls for it to be brought back into public ownership. One of Belfast’s oldest public buildings, it has been added to the World Monuments Watch, which identifies sites that face “major challenges such as climate change, tourism, conflict and natural disaster”. The World Monument Fund visited Belfast on Wednesday to add the derelict 250-year-old Assembly Rooms to the list.

Feb 26, 2025 | irishnews.com | Suzanne Mcgonagle

Belfast rappers Kneecap have helped launched a campaign for a new Irish medium youth facility in the west of the city by donating £7,000. The Irish languagehip hoptrio gave the money to Glór na Móna’s youth project, which is facing a funding shortfall. The donation comes after the group won £14,000 in a discrimination case against the British government last year and announced they would split the cash between groups from both sides of the community.

Feb 26, 2025 | irishnews.com | Suzanne Mcgonagle

Oxfam has warned that an unprecedented wave of Israeli military operations and illegal settler violence has caused the largest forced displacement in the West Bank since 1967. It comes as the charity calls on the Irish government “must go further” in pushing for further action to help the Palestinian people. It says that more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced since the January 19th ceasefire in Gaza with humanitarian aid being systematically blocked.

Feb 26, 2025 | irishnews.com | Suzanne Mcgonagle

Support among young people in Northern Ireland for refugees and asylum seekers has fallen, according to a new report. Research has found that last year just over half (55%) of respondents agreed “it is our duty to provide protection to refugees who are escaping persecution in their home country”. But it marks a decrease from 63% in 2023. It also represents a fall in support from when when the research was first carried out in 2017 when 60% of respondents agreed.