The East Belfast Herald is a defunct paid for weekly newspaper which circulated across Belfast, Castlereagh, Dundonald and parts of the Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland. It was launched on 16th January 2009. The paper closed in October 2009.
It was officially launched by northern Irish author Colin Bateman at Belfast Metropolitan College, along with Ulster Unionist Party leader Sir Reg Empey and UTV continuity announcer Aidan Browne.
The paper was owned and edited by former County Down Spectator deputy editor Fiona Rutherford.
Regular columnists included Roy 'Couch Grouch' Redburn, Simon Little and Paul Reilly.
Famous quotes containing the words east, belfast and/or herald:
“The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not send men to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.”
—Terry Anderson, U.S. hostage. International Herald Tribune (Paris, May 6, 1992)