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Archive | March, 2013

Flag protests – your super A to Z guide

A is for anger Everything that has happened in Belfast and elsewhere since December 3 2012 has been motivated by anger. The loyalist people are angry and the main reason for their anger is that nobody seems to know what they’re angry about. Every loyalist spokesman says something different from the last when asked why […]

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All sweet at the Sweety Bottle

CRAZY ESCAPADES and calamitous situations are what West Belfast audiences can expect when they take their seats at the Roddy McCorley club for a taste of The Sweety Bottle. What started life as a series of nostalgic short stories in the Andersonstown News caught the eye of Artistic Director of the Brassneck Theatre Company, Tony […]

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West Belfast top of Irish-speaking chart

The West is definitely the place to go if you want it authentically Irish – and that’s official. But it’s no longer the Gaeltacht areas of the West of Ireland that are top of the Gaeilgeoir pops, but our very own West Belfast. The North’s latest census figures for the numbers of Irish speakers at […]

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Shot man’s body parts are to be reinterred

A body part and body tissue taken from a 19-year-old West Belfast man who was shot dead by the RUC in 1985 will be reinterred in the Milltown grave he shares with his two brothers this Saturday morning. Gerard Logue was shot dead by the RUC as he sat in a vehicle  at the junction […]

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