Older People

Campaign Rally to Restore Winter Fuel Payment for All Pensioners

Campaign to restore Winter fuel payment for all pensioners launched on steps to Stormont Speakers- Eddie Lynch: Commissioner for Older People, John Martin: Regional Secretary of the National Pensioners’ Convention, Dónal Ó Cofaigh: Fermanagh Trades …

Our Parlour: Fitzroy Presbyterian Church Memory Lane Service

Maryann Quigley learns the story behind the dementia friendly service in Fitzroy Presbyterian Church with Eleanor Greer, Claire Orr and further reveals the history and diverse work of the church in the community with the …

Our Parlour: Bill McKnight

Our Parlour with author and Poet Bill McKnight. Bill interviewed by Marianne Quigley speaks on his Mental Health, his struggles with it, as well as how he overcame this condition and uses it as inspiration …

Our Parlour: Liam Kelly

Maryann Quigley talks to writer and poet Liam Kelly about his life growing up in the New Lodge Road in North Belfast during The Troubles. As a child he was knocked down by a car, …

Our Parlour: Lorraine Cunningham

Our Parlour: Andy McNeil

Our Parlour: Living Faith Community Church

Our Parlour at the opening of the Living Faith Community Church in Belfast.

Our Parlour at the older people’s Sing-a-long in the Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum

Interviews with participants Michael Fryer, Karren Diamond, Bobby Johnston, Heather Corken, Gilliam Mcevoy, Hilton Roddenson on the benefits of communal singing and sharing memories of the war.

Our Parlour: Michael Benjamins

How Michael Benjamins through close friendships overcame personal tragedy and suffering: the experience of his Jewish grandparents who were survivors of concentration camps, the death of his brother, the breakup of partnership and the loss …