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Belfast Pride 2010: what we learned last night
27 July 2010 at 12:02 by Patrick Corrigan
A great evening in the Europa Hotel.
Senator David Norris delivering the Amnesty International Belfast Pride Lecture, followed by Pride Talks Back, when Norris joined local politicians and the Rev David McIlveen of the Free Presbyterian Church on a panel – chaired by the BBC's William Crawley – to answer questions from an audience of several hundred people, mostly from ...
Gay rights champion Senator David Norris at Belfast Pride
26 July 2010 at 13:03 by Patrick Corrigan
Really looking forward to meeting Senator David Norris later. I'm meeting him off the Dublin train this afternoon, in anticipation of the Amnesty International Belfast Pride Lecture later in the Europa Hotel.
Senator Norris at the podium to tackle prejudice and persecution against gay people at home and abroad. He has already indicated that great progress has been made towards ...
Amartya Sen on The Idea of Justice
06 July 2010 at 11:24 by Patrick Corrigan
Nobel Prize-winning economist Prof Amartya Sen is in Belfast to pick up an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast.
The university was kind enough to extend invitations to me and about 20 other Amnesty members to attend a small lecture and Q&A session with Sen last night.
The discussion was based on Sen's latest book The Idea of Justice. I ...
Rescuing Gaza: why world must stand up for justice
04 June 2010 at 11:40 by Patrick Corrigan
A version of thie piece appears in today's Belfast Telegraph. It's not currently in the online edition so am posting below instead:
One of my friend Mairead Maguire's favourite items of clothing is an old t-shirt. It bears the image of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the words: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself". ...
Northern Ireland: truth comes dropping slow
28 May 2010 at 16:31 by Patrick Corrigan
Depressing news in Belfast this afternoon as a man is shot dead in broad daylight by two masked men on the Shankill Road, while a pipe-bomb explodes outside a Sinn Fein office in Castlewellan. You would think that some people don't want to escape the past they want to inflict it on us all over again.
It was a point ...