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George Cassidy (7 September 1936 – 28 May 2023) was a jazz musician and music teacher from Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, specializing in the tenor saxophone.He was also noted for teaching fellow Belfast musician Van Morrison music reading and notation and giving him saxophone lessons.
Born in Belfast on 19 November 1932, [2] Capper started his career at the Newtownards Chronicle. He spent a few years working in Vancouver. Capper later returned to Northern Ireland and worked as an editor at a local newspaper, before joining the Belfast Telegraph and the BBC. Capper left BBC after 26 years, in 1987.
At the 2005 local elections, he was elected to Belfast City Council, representing the Laganbank area [6] At the 2014 local elections, Laganbank was abolished and he was re-elected for the Balmoral area. [7] Stalford served as High Sheriff of Belfast in 2010. Aged only 27, the Belfast Telegraph described him as the youngest ever High Sheriff of ...
Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being falsely accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.
Former Belfast Telegraph offices, July 2010. The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.
The Community Telegraph was a free distribution newspaper published by Independent News & Media. The newspaper, a sister paper of the paid-for title, The Belfast Telegraph , was created in order to replace its direct predecessor, the now defunct Herald and Post , also a freesheet.
Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin, in what she describes as "the Catholic tribe", [6] and first graduated from University College Dublin (UCD). She has said that she loved her time at UCD but subsequently left Ireland to escape the influence of the Catholic Church, and a culture which backed "physical force nationalism."
Rather than Mary McArdle and Sinn Féin saying her death was a mistake, what they should be saying is Mary Travers' murder is an embarrassment which has come back to haunt them." [14] Her brother, Paul Travers, who now lives in Australia, told the Belfast Telegraph in July 2011: "In 2011 we are told to put the past behind us and move on," he said.