Posts Tagged ‘Heather McGarrigle’
REVIEW: Seasick Steve at the Open House Festival
Friday, September 24th, 2010
The organisers of this year’s Open House Festival certainly chose the right man to bring an amazing week-long celebration of live music to a close. Following a great, mellow set from British band Peggy Sue, Seasick Steve took to the stage shortly after 9pm on Sunday night. The ‘song and dance man’, as he describes himself, set about raising the roof of the marquee in Custom House Square with his own unique brand of foot-stomping, dirty ol’ American blues.
BY HEATHER MCGARRIGLE
Tags: Gown, Heather McGarrigle, newspaper, open house festival, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Seasick Steve, student, students, The Gown
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NEWS: Political parties discuss 11+ in QUB’s Great Hall as Basil McCrea deems the situation to be a “sham”
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
“An ill-qualified, confusing, ultimately detrimental sham.”
This was the UUP Educational Spokesperson Basil McCrea’s summation of the post-transfer test situation in Northern Ireland. On Thursday 12th November, he, along with representatives of the other main political parties took part in a debate on the abolition of the transfer test, chaired by the BBC’s Jim Fitzpatrick in QUB’s Great Hall. Taking part also were Sinn Fein Education Spokesperson John O’Dowd, SDLP Education Spokesperson Dominic Bradley MLA, Alliance leader David Ford MLA and Mervyn Storey, DUP MLA and chairman of the Assembly’s Education Committee.
BY HEATHER MCGARRIGLE (more…)
Tags: 11+, Gown, Heather McGarrigle, newspaper, Politicall Activism Week, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
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