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Comment: Our Emergency Departments are in crisis. The death of a man in a fire at the RVH should be a huge wake-up call

Our editor Brian Pelan writes about his own personal experience at the Emergency Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and asks how much longer will this waiting time crisis be tolerated. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

‘I was the one who kept showing up. I was the one who kept going …’

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. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Shankill Women’s Centre to use the month of May to raise awareness of violence against women and girls

Given the escalation of violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland, Shankill Women’s Centre wants to respond by raising awareness. We are claiming the month of May to launch a campaign, #MayI, to highlight how we can all work towards ending violence against women and girls (EVAWG). READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Comment: Ulster University ‘recently lauded as University of the Year has now become the seat of a climate of fear’

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 education. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

I have MS — it doesn’t have me: Why I hid my diagnosis for 15 years — and the freedom I found when I finally spoke

Caroline Millar shares her story as the MS Society marks 70 years of supporting people in Northern Ireland. Living with multiple sclerosis, she reflects on her own journey and the vital role the charity has played through its advocacy, care, and sense of community for those affected by the condition. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Stories Across Borders – a digital cultural exchange between Belfast and Delhi

Belfast is a city that understands, perhaps better than most, what it means to carry identity carefully. Culture here is not decoration. It is history, it is community, it is survival. Yet when it comes to learning about cultures beyond our own, the experience often stays at the surface, a festival here, a food fair there, a classroom module that covers differences without really exploring it. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

Review: Among Communists – An engaging, humourous portrayal of growing up among the party faithful

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’s grandfather, Sean Morrissey, worked at Inglis bakery in the Markets area of Belfast, and both were active trade unionists. The book serves up a poignant tale of youth, family life, growing up, joy, and disappointment. READ MORE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

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