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Tell us: how have you been affected by the situation in Belfast?

Tell us: how have you been affected by the situation in Belfast?

Police have used water cannon against rioters in Northern Ireland during a second night of anti-immigration protests. It dispersed a crowd of about 300 people on Wednesday night who burned a truck and threw bricks and petrol bombs close to the Sandyknowes roundabout near Newtownabbey, eight miles north of Belfast. The family of the stabbing victim, Stephen Ogilvie, condemned the violent protests and appealed for an end to misinformation and expressed disgust at the scenes: “We want to make it absolutely clear that to do this in response is not supported by our family, and peaceful protest is only ever the way forward,” the family said. Hadi Alodid, 30, of Duncairn Avenue, Belfast, was charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie on Wednesday. He was further charged with possessing a knife in a public place, Kinnaird Avenue, and threatening to kill an NHS worker on the same day. . In one flare-up near Shankill Road in Belfast, a group stormed a home that appeared to be occupied by a family from an ethnic minority …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast Is somehow too much and not enough

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast Is somehow too much and not enough

Add How to Get to Heaven from Belfast to your watchlist It’s hard work following up a seminal series like Derry Girls, and while many may try to draw comparisons between the Channel 4 comedy and Lisa McGee’s glossy new series, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there are minimal parallels to be drawn. That’s because, rightfully so, this new show is a completely different beast. Not that it was ever in any doubt, but McGee crafts an entirely encompassing and vibrant world in her new series – it’s just that it’s quite befuddling and really rather stressful. The series doesn’t fit neatly into any category box and while How to Get to Heaven from Belfast has been seen to be a comedy, it has elements of a thriller, a mystery drama and also, more surprisingly, a ghost story. It deals in the surreal, while also being grounded in the joyous mundanity of friendship groups and their shifting dynamics as we age. It gives us messy women, complicated lives and avoidant personalities – all …

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack | Every song featured

While the subject matter and twists of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast are enough to keep you going, the Netflix series certainly doesn’t shy away from its fair share of epic needledrop moments. The music of the series is one of the main draws of the new Lisa McGee comedy-drama, with tracks from the likes of B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, S Club 7 and Tatu transporting us right back to our younger years. There’s also, much to McGee’s personal delight, plenty of Girls Aloud – a group with Derry connections (Nadine Coyle) that McGee couldn’t have used in seminal comedy series Derry Girls due to the timeline. Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com, McGee said: “I think because Girls Aloud has a Derry girl in it, that felt fun to sort of work that in. Some of the tracks in Derry Girls that we had to use, we cut off at ’98. So Girls Aloud, I could never use. I was like ‘Well, I’m using them now – all the time!’.” As for whether the music …