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Could there be a more enchanting land to inspire a child’s imagination than Northern Ireland? Imagine playing in an ancient castle atop towering cliffs, feeling the spray of vast plunging waterfalls, boating through atmospheric caves, treading scary rope bridges, following endless giant steps into the sea…
James MacSorley vividly recalls the day he first encountered the sport that would transform his life. His parents had taken him, then six, and seven-year-old sister Eimear to the Knights Wheelchair Basketball Club in Antrim. Both children had been born with spina bifida, a condition which allows them only partial use of their legs, and their parents hoped taking up the sport would help them to live life to the full.
The UK Government has been leading the charge towards global net zero, and hosted the COP 26 Climate Change conference in November 2021. It has promised tough measures to ensure the UK cuts emission by at least 68% by 2030, and reaches net zero by 2050. That gives Stephen and his company, SDS Energy, even more ammunition to convince business to reduce their carbon footprint. And now he has an innovative digital solution, CarbonFIT, to make that even easier.
When Eric Clapton received a Grammy for his album “If I Could Change the World ‘ at Madison Square Gardens in 1997, he played the title song with his Lowden guitar. Clapton is just one of many talented guitarists – rock, classical and acoustic – to turn to George Lowden for their most prized possession. The latest, Ed Sheeran, is such a devotee of the Northern Irish guitar maker he has given his name to a new range of guitars, ‘Sheeran by Lowden’.
It might be just a glance, an inappropriate remark. Or it might be something harsher, bullying in the schoolyard, or in the workplace. Wherever it happens, racism is deeply damaging to those who suffer from it.
It was back in the 1990s that Aidan Doherty travelled to Canada, where he was hugely impressed with the progress they were making in recycling and the importance, even then, that they placed on it.
Northern Ireland’s contribution to healthcare innovation has been remarkable over the years. Today, Belfast-based firm Axial3D’s new patient-specific solutions are continuing that tradition as they begin to transform surgery around the world.
Steve Orr has always managed to be in the right place at the right time, consistently working with the game-changing technology of the day.
The deafening roar of the turbocharged engines as racing cars circle the track at speeds of up to 215 MPH, the fumes of petrol permeating the adrenalin-soaked atmosphere.
A night no Northern Irish football fan will ever forget. The Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, Spain is the location. Northern Ireland are playing their final game of the first group stage of the World Cup Finals against the host nation. They need a win to progress to the second stage.
‘We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.’
It doesn’t seem to matter how far or how high you travel, if you’re from Northern Ireland it’s hard not to take a little piece of home with you.
Imagine this. You're barely into your twenties. You're waiting in the wings of London's vast Wembley Arena, packed with over 5,000 people. The television cameras are trained on you. The all-powerful panel of the X-Factor judges, led by the formidable Simon Cowell, are ready.
Today, a new, micro, form of engineering, electrical engineering, is changing the way we communicate and Northern Ireland is at the cutting edge of this technology too.
Born and raised in an African American community in South Carolina, Dana Masters did not just find her home amongst the hills of County Down but found herself as a singer and songwriter too. Now making waves as a solo performer, the acclaimed vocalist is capable of moving fluently between jazz, blues, soul and gospel.
Built back in 1888, the year Belfast was awarded city status, the beautiful Ormeau Baths has always been a vital community hub. It began as public baths, providing two swimming pools and 36 public baths at a time when few houses had their own. More recently it hosted an acclaimed art gallery.
Until recently, coaches training their keepers relied on nothing but their own perception to help goalkeepers refine their skills, but now the world of immersive technology is taking the process forward light years.
How often do we hear about a ground-breaking new drug or vaccine that will prevent or combat disease? But that is just part of the battle. If the delivery of the drug into the body is not efficient, it can fulfil only a small degree of its potential.
A supper club for the passionate and the curious. A feast of homegrown veggies, fruits, herbs, foraging, catering & craft beer brewing…
If you’re looking for someone in Northern Ireland to breed a very special rose there is one obvious candidate, Colin Dickson is the fifth generation of a family that has been breeding roses since 1879.
The school bell peals. A young boy races out the gates and down to the end of the pier at Carnlough Harbour, where his waiting father has moored the family fishing boat.
Aaron Flanagan will never forget the first time he picked up a comic book. "That was the day I discovered what it was like to fall in love for the first time!"
The Gobbins Path, a miracle of Edwardian engineering, is a network of bridges and pathways carved into the Antrim cliffside, a few miles from Carrickfergus.
Susie Millar remembers clearly when she first heard about the two pennies. “I was seven and my father was reading me a story about the sinking of Titanic. When he had finished, he told me it was written by my grandfather, whose life was changed forever that day.”
This is the story she heard.
