21 5 / 2013
Short video by WIMPS Central Belfast with interviews from the public on a shared and integrated education.
02 5 / 2013
On April 24th, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) launched a report which asked children and young people about their opinions on shared education. Panellists included the Minister for Education John O’Dowd MLA.
WIMPS went along to ask what the adults involved thought of the report’s findings.
30 4 / 2013
Video: Good Friday Agreement at 15
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To mark the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, two leading politicians met with young people, including WIMPS crew, at the MAC in Belfast.
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers and Irish An Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore took questions from the audience, many of whom were born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998.
Craigavon WIMPS Crew member Dave Aston went along, and spoke to actor Dan Gordon, who compèred the event, as well asking some of the young people their thoughts on what was said.
22 4 / 2013
Video: Make A Wish 2 - Young People quiz MLAs at Stormont
Following up on the Make A Wish project, 30 young people from around Northern Ireland met at Stormont to talk to MLAs about the issues that they wanted to highlight.
At the tables were were Simon Hamilton (DUP), Phil Flanagan (Sinn Fein), Jo-Anne Dobson (Ulster Unionist), Conall McDevitt (SDLP), Chris Lyttle (Alliance), Stephen Agnew (Green) and Basil McCrea (Independent).
11 7 / 2012
Pro-Life and Pro-Choice groups held rallies in Belfast city centre last weekend.
On Saturday 7th of July Precious Life, Youth Defence and The Life Institute organized a “Rally for life”.
Meanwhile a pro-choice counter rally was held in front of the City Hall.
A large group of pro-lifers marched through the city to “to keep abortion out of Ireland”.
The counter rally called for abortion rights to be extended to both Northern Ireland and to the Republic of Ireland, two of the last countries in Europe where terminations are illegal.
Abortion is a thorny issue, both socially and politically. The 1967 UK Abortion Act never came into force in Northern Ireland. The 1861 Offences Against the Person Act still applies. Every year more than 1000 women from NI and 4000 from the Republic of Ireland travel to Britain to have abortions. Pro-choice supporters say that women who can’t afford the journey could decide to undergo an unsafe illegal termination.
The pro-choice movement say that this has a serious impact on a woman’s human rights. But the pro-life movement consider the embryo to be a person and sees abortion as a threat to the rights of the unborn.
WIMPS.tv went to both rallies to hear the arguments.
11 7 / 2012
“The more I played flamenco, the more I liked it”, Paddy Anderson, flamenco guitar player.
Paddy Anderson is one of a few flamenco guitar players in NI. He juggles 2 jobs as a guitar player and as part of the staff in a language school in Belfast.
He was a guitar player before fell in love with this specific music style. “I went to Spain, I was living there and the more I played, the more I liked it.” Paddy said.
Every Wednesday he plays in Teatro Restaurant. Watching his show there are couples, old people, young people, tourists… “In my opinion young people are interested in Spanish culture, because it’s where they go on holidays,” he added.
The future for this lover of flamenco is clear, “I will carry on playing”, Paddy concluded.
11 7 / 2012
WIMPS has now established a crew in Coleraine wimps.tv/wimps-crews/coleraine-crew/
Here they are to introduce themselves.
02 5 / 2012
Free Tuition Loophole for NI Pupils
There is a lot of discussion on Twitter and Facebook about this story by people in Northern Ireland.
