Ivan Little
Belfast Telegraph
United Kingdom
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Scammers using Turkey disaster for profit are the lowest of the low
I’m a non-violent sort, but I’m almost tempted to make an exception in the case of the scammers capitalising on the misery of earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria to steal relief money. → Read More
Van Morrison reveals he was turned down by BBC in Belfast after childhood audition
Van Morrison has revealed how he had an audition as a schoolboy for the BBC in Belfast but never heard back. → Read More
Coronation Street star Michael Condron on how NI Troubles helped him prepare for role as racist thug on soap
Coronation Street star Michael Condron has revealed that growing up in Belfast during the Troubles gave him an insight into how to play racist thug Griff Reynolds. → Read More
‘He was my best friend’: Son’s tribute to Van Morrison superfan dad who died after Belfast concert
Representatives of Sir Van Morrison and Belfast’s Europa have invited the son of a fan who died after one of his concerts to be a guest at another show at the hotel next month. → Read More
Van Morrison fan who had seen singer ‘500 times’ dies after falling ill at Belfast gig
One of Van Morrison’s most dedicated fans has died several days after falling ill before one of the singer’s concerts in Belfast’s Europa Hotel. → Read More
Van Morrison takes aim at further politicians in rescheduled Europa Hotel concerts
Sir Van Morrison has returned to the scene of his “dangerous” rant at former Stormont health minister Robin Swann with a new attack on politicians. → Read More
‘Up the Ra’: Why IRA singing turns my guts
The Blame Game TV show almost wrote itself last week. The panel that has to pick the bones of the week’s news had no shortage of topics, including a sick sectarian songstress, the return of dissident republican bombers, loyalist weapon finds and a court case in Dublin that’s heard explosive claims about Sinn Fein. → Read More
It’s a whole new ball game for Glentoran as new stage production relives Vienna Cup win
Irish League football club Glentoran are hoping to score big time in a whole new ball game — the theatre. → Read More
9/11 hero born in Belfast on why he won’t go back to US
A Belfast-born paramedic, honoured for his heroism during 9/11, has moved back with his family to live in his native city — but he will be shunning today’s 21st anniversary of the Twin Towers atrocities. → Read More
Fermanagh photographer Aidan Monaghan on his five star life snapping top movie stars around the world
There can’t be many people from the tiny village of Ederney in Co Fermanagh who have worked with Nicole Kidman, Liam Neeson, Gillian Anderson, Jeremy Irons and Matt Damon among a veritable cast of thousands. Yet modest Aidan Monaghan is wary of making a song and dance about the galaxy of stars he’s pictured as one of the film industry’s foremost still photographers. → Read More
The Queen came to build bridges, and left having won Irish people’s hearts
It was the history-altering day when Sinn Fein was completely wrong-footed by the Queen, whose visit to Dublin they had boycotted just 12 months before they did a U-turn and offered the hand of friendship to the woman that the IRA had once tried to bomb. → Read More
Buckie Thistle kings for horror writer Stephen
Linfield FC will have one of the world’s most famous horror writers rooting for their little-known opponents when they play them in Scotland later this month. → Read More
‘Pain of talking about Claudy bombing is no easier 50 years later’
A man who lost his young brother in the Claudy bombing has said the pain has never eased as the 50th anniversary of the IRA atrocity approaches. → Read More
A sporting mastermind: remembering Billy Bingham
They called him the miracle manager. For footballing legend Billy Bingham didn’t just spin his tactical magic to take Northern Ireland to two World Cup finals after playing in another showdown, but he also masterminded one of the biggest shocks in a European competition with the part-timers of Linfield against the giants of Manchester City. → Read More
Roselawn book: Lost lives live on in Peter McCabe’s stories of Belfast headstones
It’s undoubtedly best-known as the final resting place of one of the world’s greatest footballers, George Best, but Belfast’s Roselawn Cemetery has also become a microcosm of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, with hundreds of victims of the conflict buried there. → Read More
Royals William and Kate meet NI Kegworth air crash survivor at Buckingham Palace garden party
Kegworth air disaster survivor Stephen McCoy has had a royal welcome back to London from Prince William and his wife, Kate, who were standing in for the Queen in her Platinum Jubilee year. → Read More
Ivan Little: My thwarted quest to retrace George Best’s school days at Grosvenor High
George Best would have been 76 today and oddly enough a forgotten letter that I found gathering dust in the attic has revealed a Little new postscript to his story. → Read More
Statue of Alex ‘Hurricane' Higgins no more than ‘genius’ deserves, says old friend
A lifelong friend of the late snooker star Alex Higgins has called on Belfast to erect a statue in memory of the Hurricane. → Read More
Van Morrison revisits row with Health Minister Robin Swann
Van Morrison appears to have reopened the controversy over his Covid lockdown war of words with Health Minister Robin Swann. → Read More
Cornerstone of NI theatre dies aged 86
KEN Powles, one of the most influential figures in local theatre, has died days after sharing his life story for a new book. → Read More