Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
The chapel on the ground floor is too small for a theatre “but it's the kind of place where you could have recitals, a piano player or string quartet”, says Diego Fasciati, the executive director.
Peter McVerry Trust is in talks to buy the old James Weir Home for Nurses building for social housing, and the council looks set to take over the adjoining burial site.
Proposals to return the author’s remains – which lie in Zurich – raise questions about the wishes of living relatives, what would happen to others buried with him, and how the Swiss might respond.
Liam O’Meara walks to a curved spot in the stone wall nearby. This is his favourite find from his research. A bench used to be here for mourners, called the seat of melancholia.
