By Claire Njanina Parents of black students sitting GCSEs and A-levels have spoken about difficult decisions regarding school attendance due to fears for their safety. It comes amid ongoing unrest fol...

The Practice and Participation of Rights (PPR) and Anaka Women’s Collective have said they are horrified at the scenes of racist violence that have taken place across Belfast and other parts of Northe...

By Una Murphy, VIEWdigital co-founder What’s the impact on the health of migrant women with little English if female interpreters are not available at medical appointments? An in-person screening of a...

Thirty-two-year-old Kerry Crockett, the Health and Well-Beng Project Co-Ordinator at the Shankill Women’s Centre, tells how a phone call led to her life of struggle being totally transformed Do you be...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan I would have loved to have heard the thoughts of my late father, Joseph Pelan, on the new memoir Among Communists by poet Sinead Morrisey. Both my dad and the author’...

Catherine Ferrin (above), Greater north Belfast Women’s Network coordinator, tells of new online campaign called #May1 This year, 10 of our staff members at the Shankill Women’s Centre are taking on t...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan Last Tuesday (21 April), I spent more than nine hours in the Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in Belfast. After 10 to 12 days of feeling...

Lecturer Aisling O’Beirn (above), a member of the Ulster University branch of the University and College Union (UCU), says the scale of the proposed jobs losses represents a direct threat to higher ed...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan Plastic, one of the banes of my existence, is a substance I have loathed for as long as I can remember first encountering it. This makes it all the more remarkable th...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan The opening lines of Philip Larkin’s poem This Be The Verse came to mind after watching director Jim Jarmusch’s excellent new film Father Mother Sister Brother. They ...

By VIEWdigital arts reviewer Conor Pelan Conor Mitchell’s GROUP! returns to the Lyric Theatre after 24 years as a benchmark show for the theatre’s 75th anniversary. It explores the classic setting of ...

The Creative Learning department at the Lyric Theatre Belfast has announced a tour of primary schools across Northern Ireland with its environmental production Waste Busters the Eco-Musical. The show ...

A series of short factual films, Migrant Women Seen & Heard, co-created with writers, filmmakers and journalists, Nandi Jola, Jess Lovely, Abeer Musawei and Marisa Comeau-Kerege, migrant women living ...

By VIEWdigital theatre reviewer Conor Pelan What happens when you put Baby Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z together at one family birthday party? Consumed, written by Karris Kelly and produced by Paine...

Northern Ireland has the second-highest rate of low pay in the UK, a report has found. New analysis of the Office of National Statistics’ Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) by the Living Wage ...

The Human Voice at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast By VIEWdigital theatre reviewer Conor Pelan Set in modern Belfast, Prime Cut Productions of The Human Voice, (originally by Jean Cocteau in the 1930s ‘La ...

A woman who had worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Services Ltd (PwC) for more than 40 years has settled her case of age and disability discrimination against the company for £150,000. The woman, who w...

By Liana Mac Intyre The latest issue of VIEW magazine was launched on Monday, January 26, at UNISON Northern Ireland’s office in Galway House on York Street, Belfast. The event brought together trade ...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan Five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed in 2024 by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza, in her uncle’s car, along with six family members and two courageous Palestini...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan I, like many thousands of other people, am a firm advocate of a public health system that is free at the point of entry. But I also know that our National Health Serv...

Ten creative projects have now been selected to receive funding after children and families in east Belfast took part in the Happy Vote. A range of groups pitched to hundreds of people who came throug...

A Christmas Carol, the classic tale by Charles Dickens, returns to the Lyric Theatre on November 28 to January 10, 2026. Reimagined by playwright Marie Jones and directed by Matthew McElhinney, the 20...

Children and families in east Belfast are set to cast their votes in a fun ballot that will determine which ideas will come to life as part of Save the Children NI’s Innovation Fund, ‘Transforming the...

By VIEWdigital journalist Emily Campbell An estimated 30,000 women were confined in the Magdalene Laundries. One thousand seven hundred and forty-five babies were sent across the Atlantic to the Unite...

By VIEWdigital journalist Emily Campbell In September, I became familiar with the consequences of spiking. As a student, I had often heard the term thrown around university — “a friend of a friend” ty...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan Director Kelly Reichardt’s latest film The Mastermind is, at a surface level, a heist movie, but it is so much more. The minimalist style, the camera shots, the jazzy...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan The food courier on a bike is now a common sight on our city streets. A few taps on a mobile phone, and your meal is delivered to your front door. But what’s the stor...

By VIEWdigital journalist Emily Campbell The Linen Hall Library in Belfast has announced the launch of the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award 2025, celebrating and promoting excellence in short ficti...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan The Sunflower Bar in Belfast is set to serve up a range of Palestinian food at a fundraising event in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The event will run from 1pm ...

An award-winning and politically charged play about the forced closure of Belfast’s Regina Coeli hostel for women is returning to stages across the north following overwhelming demand from venues and ...

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A wheelchair user, who was stuck several times on the Glider in Belfast after the ramp failed to come down, has settled her disability discrimination case against Translink for £7,500. Belfast student...

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan There is one long camera shot in Sorry, Baby — comedian Eva Victor’s feature debut as a writer–director — which totally resonates because of its originality in convey...

By Donal McMahon, Local Democracy Reporting Servicer A Northern Ireland housing chief has called for “urgent” borrowing powers amid a stark warning that thousands of people could face a hike in rents....

The Department for Communities released the latest edition of its Housing Bulletin for April to June 2025 today. The statistics show that the number of households with homelessness status in Northern ...

To say I was nervous would be an understatement. It was a beautiful evening in Belfast, with the sun setting over the River Lagan, as I slowly approached St Joseph’s church in Sailortown at around 7pm...

By Suleiman Abdulahi, Founder and CEO of Horn of Africa People’s Aid Northern Ireland (HAPANI)  A mob beat up an Indian man in Tallaght, County Dublin, last month. A group of 30 to 40 people stripped ...

Nicole Devlin, (above), a PhD researcher, Churchill Fellow and violence prevention educator, and who lives in Belfast, says that much more effective action, including structural change, is needed to t...

A new report launched today by the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland, highlights the need for a more coordinated and better-resourced approach to supporting older people living here. ...

Maha Al-Hakimi from Yemen, above, was among the first participants on the recently-started VIEWdigital Community Journalism course. Her story is about a mother and…

Breastival, the award-winning summer family festival, is back for its ninth year on Saturday, August 2, at Ormeau Park, Belfast. Held during World Breastfeeding Week (August 1–7 ), the festival celebr...

Mayte Segura, director of Mexican Dance Belfast, tells why she decided to set up a folk dance group in Belfast. Mayte was among the first participants on the VIEWdigital Community Journalism course Wh...

The author of this article Dervilia Kernaghan, above, has spent much of her career in the community and voluntary sector and is interested in gender and leadership, addressing health inequalities and ...

Disability rights activist Mark Cousins, who works in Open Arts as a Communications and Development Assistant, says that his experience with every single service aimed at helping him to navigate his a...

Maha Al-Hakimi from Yemen, above, was among the first participants on the recently-started VIEWdigital Community Journalism course. She has written this article about a mother and daughter from Sudan ...

A number of well-known comedians will take to the stage at the Ulster Hall in Belfast this October in support of integrated education in Northern Ireland. Tim McGarry, Wendy Wason and Colin Murphy are...

An all-island housing demonstration organised by Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) will take place on Saturday, July 5, in Dublin city centre. The protest at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin at...