Belfast Quotes

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn`t work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

We`ll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I`ll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

The mood on the streets of Belfast has never been more pessimistic.