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:
“Senta: These boats, sir, what are they for?
Hamar: They are solar boats for Pharaoh to use after his death. They’re the means by which Pharaoh will journey across the skies with the sun, with the god Horus. Each day they will sail from east to west, and each night Pharaoh will return to the east by the river which runs underneath the earth.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“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)
“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded.... He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)