How To Use Belfast In A Sentence

Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
Tournament organiser Ussher Watson will take late entries for the junior events this evening at Belfast 647934.
The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
He joked: ‘George launched a ship in Belfast and it was three miles out at sea before he let go of the bottle.’

The advanced military technology expertise of Shorts Brothers in Belfast played a crucial role in the war - for both sides.
It was designed by a professional medalist named John Woodhouse Jnr and struck by West & Co of Belfast.
He is a skilled worker laid off from his job in a Belfast shipyard.
There is an open fireplace with back boiler and the Belfast sink has a tiled drainer.
His next big step could well be to try and make an impact at Old Trafford, and, seemingly, the level-headed Belfast-born defender would not be fazed by the task.
te 8 Glue NME, July 4, 1981 (on sale in Belfast July 2) strategic element/ berlin Belfast Someone save my life tonight -- please. MUSIC FOR BOYS
A crowd throw petrol bombs and stones at police and army during a security alert in west Belfast.
The device of appending separate annexes to key government documents is becoming something of a norm in the wake of the breakdown of the Belfast Agreement.
The Belfast Telegraph has a letter that I think bears repetition: Our own observatory at Armagh is one of the oldest in the world and has been observing solar cycles for more than 200 years. Archive 2008-08-01
The World came to Cobh on Saturday, has been in Waterford since yesterday and journeys to Belfast tomorrow, hops across to Scotland and then visits Dublin on August 20.
A police manhunt has been launched, with divers dredging a reservoir in Belfast.
You will bring an innovative approach to developing inspirational teaching methods and will additionally hold a contract with the histopathology and/or cytopathology laboratories in the co-located Belfast Health and Social Naturejobs - All Jobs
He and his gang were planning to carry out random sectarian assassinations on Catholics in Belfast.
Its fuselage is made by Bombardier's subsidiary in Northern Ireland, Shorts of Belfast. Britain in Europe
The Independent newspapers own the London daily and Sunday along with the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life.
A lecture at the Belfast Winterschool was also given by the Trust.
Recent attempted van bomb attacks were foiled in Derry and Belfast.
Students at the Belfast campus have access to excellent sports facilities.
I first came to Dublin via Belfast sometime in the early 1970s.
The festival is being extensively promoted in advance with stands booked for the Holiday World extravaganzas in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
The kitchen has granite worktops and a Belfast sink.
One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
Bed was where we spent a fair bit of our time when we weren't at college or chasing young cutties around the Belfast dance-halls.
In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds.
Students at the Belfast campus have access to excellent sports facilities.
Detecting a certain ennui sweeping across Belfast's healthy but slightly stale, generic dance music-dominated gay scene just over a year ago, Niamh Rowan, Mairead Hughes and Stephen Dorothy launched Eclektric, offering a fusion of left-of-centre electronica, indie and pop with an equally quirky dose of live-mixed visuals. Clubs picks of the week
The Giant's Causeway is off the north coast and Belfast Lough indents the south-east coastline.
Over the last ten years Belfast has undergone some major cosmetic surgery and new pubs and bars have opened while existing ones have expanded.
Presenting this sketch as a public performance in Belfast, Mayne remembers, was ‘a daring venture.’
As a student I lived in Oxford but was a frequent visitor to Belfast.
) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Ask anyone who knew me on the Falls Road in Belfast in sixty-nine. CONFESSIONAL
To a bleary-eyed child after a night at sea with the Burns Laird line, the noise of the Belfast men at work seemed deafening.
Meanwhile, another man was shot and wounded in Belfast as the loyalist feud continues.
It was in Belfast that his journalistic career and his cynicism about it began. Times, Sunday Times
West Belfast is located on hills to the west and north; therefore the main view is to the south and to the east.
The court claim has been initiated by the Belfast board on behalf of all five Education Area Boards across the province.
Therefore there was an added problem in bringing jobs to West Belfast.
Another of the Palace Barracks guns, a Browning automatic pistol, was used to assassinate Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
Jeremy Hunt's push for new local TV and online services received a boost today, with the announcement that Bob Geldof's media company Ten Alps is launching The Detail, a Belfast-based news and current affairs website. The Detail to provide local news boost for Northern Ireland
I see, most regrettably, that the government has caved in, for the umpteenth time, to Irish Republicans by cancelling a fly-past by the RAF over Belfast on Sunday. What Sunday has already taught us.
His next big step could well be to try and make an impact at Old Trafford, and, seemingly, the level-headed Belfast-born defender would not be fazed by the task.
'Net' ... fascinating piece by Bob Geldof in today's Belfast Telegraph in which Sir Bob rather blows the whistle on what he calls a stitch up by Sir Patrick McCormack's Northern Ireland Affairs committee … Slugger O'Toole
But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
I deplore the fact that, from Beijing to Belfast, youngsters are inveigled into putting themselves in the front line of politics even when bullets are involved.
A bottle of Jacob's Creek wine costs €8.95 in Bray, Co Wicklow, and €7.90 in Belfast, a difference of €1.05, with €3.60 going to the Irish Exchequer and €2.94 going to the British Exchequer.
Using its mandate, it can now press even harder the case for council power-sharing, even in Belfast.
In 1981, a noxious earnest effort takes locate in the disreputable H-block of Belfast's Maze Prison. politico inmates, led by Bobby Sands (Fassbender), respond to take until the nation polity acknowledges the FTO as a lawful semipolitical organization. Planet Malaysia
We had to transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow to catch a plane to Belfast.
You get a sense that Belfast is a place where economic problems feed private woes.
The additional cost of repairs in mid-Ulster and central Belfast will put severe strain on the Northern Ireland Office budget.
The brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is due to face sex charges in Belfast on Thursday after being extradited from the Irish Republic. WalesOnline - Home
‘There is no doubt that if he continues to live in west Belfast, life could be made very unpleasant for him, but given his past and his knowledge of internal security methods, he probably thinks he can bluff it out,’ the source said.
This article in the Belfast Telegraph gives a good example of what kind of people they are-protecting Ulster by intimidating a woman working for a Christian ministry.
She plays DSI Stella Gibson, who is drafted in from London's Met Police to help catch a killer on the loose in Belfast.
The same schemes are celebrated repeatedly with the government squeezing out every last drop of credit from West Belfast projects.
The entry place, a black, gaping mouth, reminded him of a burned-out bakery on the strcet where he had lived in Belfast. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Belfast is another major city well worth travelling to for contemporary and modern art.
The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago.
The presence of McDonald - the so-called brigadier of the South Belfast wing of the loyalist paramilitary group - and other loyalist leaders is considered to be a significant step in building relations with republican and nationalist communities. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
But even as we receive it, we think of the blood that has been spilt, and may yet be shed on that beautiful landscape, from the majestic Mourne Mountains to the Glens Of Antrim, from dear old suffering Belfast to the magnificent lakes of Co. Fermanagh, from lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle to the orchards of Armagh. Nobel Lecture
North Belfast, in particular, has been simmering since clashes at Orange marches in July.
He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands.
But this is a communal achievement, one that shows us a side of Belfast we never normally see.
Niedermayer, who was also the German consul in Belfast, headed the Grundig plant.
The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham.
The next step was the glasshouses built by Joseph Paxton at Chatsworth in the 1830s and developed in the 1840s by Richard Turner for the botanical gardens at Kew, Dublin, and Belfast.
Greetings and good wishes were brought by Gordon Darragh, from Windsor Baptist Church, Belfast, where the Wright family had been worshipping.
It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast.
Belfast are the strongest by far but, apart from them, anybody can beat anyone else.
As the procession moved up river, Tower Bridge raised its bascules in tribute while gun salutes came from the Tower of London and HMS Belfast.
Sailing south, the ship docked on the River Foyle, a few miles downriver from Londonderry, Northern Ireland's largest city after Belfast.
What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast.
‘I'm a teetotaller, meself,’ declares the middle-aged Belfast woman seated opposite me.
Travellers, a minority grouping within West Belfast were cited as a group who experience discrimination and racism.
‘I'm a teetotaller, meself,’ declares the middle-aged Belfast woman seated opposite me.
Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a bomb into Belfast airport.
A distraught mother whose special needs son has vanished from his east Belfast home is praying for his safe return.
When I was in Mr MacLelland's class, I was going to pass my eleven-plus and go to Belfast Grammar like Raymond and Joanne. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Details about the alleged incident were given by a prosecuting lawyer at Belfast Crown Court in the trial of three Londonderry men.
On a bitterly cold, dark and dank afternoon at St Paul's Belfast, the yellow and blue shirted Newry side failed to rise to the occasion and in the end could scarcely complain about the result.
The community that showed the most stable and consistent patterns of gender-differentiation was the East Belfast Ballymacarrett community.
Also with Government loans, another company is building the Lear-Fan light executive aircraft near Belfast.
Methody are overwhelming favourites to copper-fasten their grip on the old trophy but Ballyclare are battle hardened having seen off Grosvenor, Bangor Grammar and Belfast Royal Academy. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
The chain tends to have a strong ground floor business through its brasseries and bars, and it hopes to carry this tradition into Belfast.
Built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the 45,000-ton Titanic was considered the most advanced vessel of her time and thought to be unsinkable.
) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics. MUSIC FOR BOYS
In the first year of my marriage I discovered a dusty cubby-hole off Belfast's High Street – Atlantic Records. Fats Waller by Michael Longley
They turned into gaping holes in the final period when three Belfast goals in as many minutes ended the contest.
A native of Armagh, she was educated at St Catherine's college, Armagh and gained a Honours BEd degree from St Mary's University Belfast.
The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago.
He called Sid about the hundreds of unsold, unrented, slapped-up, ticky-tacky apartments in Greater Belfast.
Speaking at a Belfast news conference, Mr Ervine denied that his party had left the talks in a fit of pique.
Muddle and mayhem Security at the Shorts company's guided-missile plant in Belfast was exposed again.
Belfast is a different city, thriving with new businesses.
One participant had conducted some research into small businesses in West Belfast for a research report.
Aggrieved bank customers have another legal weapon in their armoury when battling the banks after a landmark legal decision was upheld last week by the Appeals Court in Belfast.
During the visit, volunteers from the ship went ashore in North Belfast and spent a day painting and decorating a newly-refurbished church hall.
But if Wilson is happy to continue in Belfast, RBS would have no good reason to ease him out.
In 1881 a factory employing 600 workers was constructed in Belfast, replacing hand-operated methods of production with power-driven machinery.
The company has decided to use Belfast as its distribution base.
Brian Ervine, the new leader of the political party associated with the UVF, told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position. BBC News - Home
Then several hundred passengers had, jointly and severally, as they say in the courts, to convince the ticket collector at Belfast that they couldn't buy a ticket because the conductor was absent / ticketless whichever the case might be.
More than ever Belfast needs bands that can stimulate, not simulate. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Professor Foster was conferred with an honorary DLit degree by Queen's University Belfast in 1998.
It was a technical triumph, using live link-ups to Scotland, Plymouth, London, Manchester, Belfast, Derbyshire and Bangor, with Lomax at the centre of the web in Birmingham.
The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham.
I've also held down long term residencies at clubs around Ireland such as Brown Sugar at the Kitchen in Dublin, U-Turn at Ri Ra in Dublin, Jazz Juice at the GPO in Galway, Thompson Garage in Belfast, the Soul Clinic, Dee-Bop, Irish Blogs
If you prefer the modern, industrialised phalanx of grey and fuscous brown, then I refer you to Eamon McCann in the Belfast Telegraph.
The big Belfast mate larruped down the short companionway. The Wind Bloweth
A specialist adviser visits the Belfast campus where careers information is currently held in the Library.
It does make sense that the marquess, who basically owned Belfast, would commemorate his dead daughters in the streets built in the later eighteenth century; but looking at the geography, Arthur Street should have been constructed a few decades earlier. Linkspam for 15-8-2009
After marrying, the couple fled across Europe, holing up first in Antwerp, then London, then (this is where, for me, the story, for so long so fruity, gains the stamp of dreary authenticity) Hull and finally Belfast. Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit
However, in blowy conditions at St Teresa's pitch on the Glen Road in Belfast, the St. Louis boys finally made the dream become a reality as they toppled a very physical Loreto College, Coleraine team.
It's typical of the Belfast approach to life, this earthing of Ireland's celebrities and stars, this demystification of the glamour and pizzazz of showbusiness.
St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint.
He bought original drawings from Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipbuilders which built the Titanic, for €12,400.
In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
He also runs a number of extortion rackets and has been convicted for damaging bars in and around Belfast.
Everything ran like clockwork for the Irish fivesome who had to quickly move on to launches in Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London.
Noah took a hard hilarious time getting his gin-swilling Belfast millie of a wife on board with their compliment of furry animals.
Today, rare herbs and wild flowers grow on the plaguey pit, so Belfast City Council has ordered the ground left to grow wild in order to see what biological mysteries the cemetery contains.
How far is it from Belfast to the nearest and furthest points on the frontier with Eire?
I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.
Eight hours earlier I had left Dublin, intent on beating the morning traffic up the N1 en route to a meeting in Belfast.
Belfast is attracting significant new private investment.
Bessbrook United had a wasted journey to West Belfast when the referee deemed the pitch to be unplayable.
The advanced military technology expertise of Shorts Brothers in Belfast played a crucial role in the war - for both sides.
Pitt, managing a consistent and credible Belfast accent, brings tremendous sympathy to a character dedicated to killing.
But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
There is also a luxury kitchen with granite worktops and a stylish Belfast sink. The Sun
The first leg of the exchange involved a week-long visit to Lisbon of various Belfast artists involved in the project to take the art of Belfast to the Portugese capital.
While in the transit camp at Lowestoft he was offered a choice of hostels in Belfast, Leeds or London.
Bruce's "blaggard" relative was a distinguished gardener who was the curator of Belfast's famous Royal Botanical Gardens. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
At last when attempts were made to elect to Parliament an Irish lawyer who added to his impecuniousness, eloquence, a half-finished University education, and an Orangeman's prejudices of the best brand of Belfast or Derry, inter-civic strife took the form of physical violence. The World for Sale, Complete
And once again Margaret Henan carried a babe to Belfast and had it christened SAMUEL
Compact and bijou, Belfast is nonetheless a world-beater.
The collation was a sumptuous one, for when Belfast nabobs do anything, they do it. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
Greenore Port, located equidistant between Dublin and Belfast, is one of the three deepwater ports on the east coast and has long term development potential.
But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
A specialist adviser visits the Belfast campus where careers information is currently held in the Library.
A huge bomb blast brought chaos and devastation to the centre of Belfast yesterday.
Belfast City Airport Forum is a new advisory body set up to discuss environmental issues affecting the airport and the surrounding area.
I rapidly tired of the project and ended up footslogging the Falls road in West Belfast.
Belfast sits at the mouth of the river Lagan and is encircled by green rolling hills.
I have laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast to commemorate the British war dead.
It was in Belfast that his journalistic career and his cynicism about it began. Times, Sunday Times
The intention of the project is also to provide a feeder service being piloted between Newcastle and Belfast via Translink.
At dinner the night before our interview, the poet from east Belfast seems distant and preoccupied. Times, Sunday Times
After a troubled construction, it opens with Camulodunum, a show featuring works by Ai Weiwei , among others.29 Pop: Rihanna After nipping over for the summer festivals, Rihanna starts a proper three-month UK tour in Belfast. Autumn 2011 arts calendar
Lastly the Holocene (10,000 years to present) deposits that occur under Belfast were mainly deposited on the flood plain of the River Lagan.
As a student I lived in Oxford but was a frequent visitor to Belfast.
Still in his twenties, he swanked his way through the Belfast-based international news media, lunching with key opinion-makers, opining every night on local television.
Liam Adams is due to face sex charges in Belfast after being extradited from the Irish Republic. The Guardian World News
The Loyalist working-class areas of Belfast suffer nothing like the level of social exclusion faced by the Roma.
You see, sir, I'm a poor foundling from the Belfast Asylum, shoved out by the mother that bore me, upon the wide wurld, long before I knew that I was in it. Roughing It in the Bush
One night, while I was in the Black Bull pub in the Markets district talking to Official republicans, news came that seven internees had escaped from a prison ship in Belfast harbour.
In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.
A specialist adviser visits the Belfast campus where careers information is currently held in the Library.
The north Belfast student was awarded the RICS, which is the world's leading qualification when it comes to professional standards in land, property and construction, at a ceremony in Belfast's Direct Wine Shipments last week. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
The additional cost of repairs in mid-Ulster and central Belfast will put severe strain on the Northern Ireland Office budget.
The company has decided to use Belfast as its distribution base.
There is a Belfast sink, an integrated hob, an oven and extractor fan, a fridge-freezer, a dishwasher and a washing machine.
A specialist adviser visits the Belfast campus where careers information is currently held in the Library.
One distinguished exponent is Van Morrison, whose Astral Weeks album detailed his meanderings through Cyprus Avenue, a tree-lined road near his childhood home in east Belfast.
And then of course there were the Sanger Bangers of Belfast Our camp in Dortmund was full of the f uckers! Army Rumour Service
The first thing you may notice is that Belfast looks very similar to Glasgow - and it also has more than a passing resemblance to Liverpool.
Even if we accept the underlying private enterprise philosophy of Making Belfast Work, some basic flaws exist.
And during his flying visit to Belfast, Mr Grade took time out to chew the fat about the old days.
But the loose cannon ignored them and spent the night before his death enjoying a pint in the Markets area of Belfast. The Sun
In the same year, Protestant Action again fielded candidates for the Belfast Corporation.
There is an increase in the number of bars and restaurants and busloads of people from all over the country are coming to Belfast.
Some of the BBC network business programmes will also broadcast from Belfast on 7 November.
The chart-topping Brit winners are back in Belfast this week as part of their Out Of Control tour, which has been described as their raunchiest yet. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
It's the pick of the ties although the game between holders East Belfast and Killyleagh will attract a lot of attention.
What held this strange alliance of East Belfast back street preacher and born again estate agent together was the cement of sectarianism.
Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a bomb into Belfast airport.
Pitt, managing a consistent and credible Belfast accent, brings tremendous sympathy to a character dedicated to killing.
He was praised as ‘a Belfast boy, who made a historic and unsurpassed contribution to Association Football’.
Belfast City Airport Forum is a new advisory body set up to discuss environmental issues affecting the airport and the surrounding area.
Travellers, a minority grouping within West Belfast were cited as a group who experience discrimination and racism.
To raise awareness of this and agitate for increased funding the CAF is holding a rally this Wednesday at 10: 30am, Writer's Square in Belfast. Letter to America
Abseiling at the Europa: A number of locals took part in a sponsored abseil from the roof of the Europa Hotel, Belfast on Saturday last.
My house has a mansard roof, with pan tiles, and it was once owned by the great Scottish colourist painter, a Belfast man originally, Sir John Lavery.
He was invited to speak in Belfast by Rev Ruth Patterson, the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church.
The British — and Americans — garrisoned the occupied Six Counties very heavily, of course, and no doubt used the facilities of Belfast Lough and Lough Foyle. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
Yet what woman after woman at the conference bemoaned was the lack of an informal kind of investment structure in Belfast. Times, Sunday Times
Students at the Belfast campus have access to excellent sports facilities.
Of the proposed inter-urban corridors, only the Dublin-Belfast project is near completion.
We had to transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow to catch a plane to Belfast.
I know there are in Belfast tidy gardens of roses, bookstalls with shelves of poetry, cats soaking up sun in shop windows.
The fitted kitchen cum breakfast room has a Belfast sink, double oven, kitchen island with electric and gas double hobs, deep fat fryer and a wine rack.

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