CATHOLIC Council workers in West Belfast have accused the Council of showing “a total disregard for us” after a tricolour that had been erected was once again been taken down at the Kennedy Way cleansing depot. We reported last month how a tricolour has been put up at the depot as a direct challenge to […]
‘Hokey-cokey’ flags row gets more heated
Moving tribute to Celtic legend
IN a picture postcard graveyard clinging to the side of the Black Mountain, the memory of Belfast Celtic’s greatest ever player was recalled. Mickey Hamill, the former Glasgow and Belfast Celtic centre-half, who also played for Manchester United and Manchester City, was commemorated at a joint event between the Belfast Celtic Society and the Celtic […]
’Murph families’ new truth strategy
THE families of those killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre have proposed the appointment of an independent panel to examine all documents relating to the 1971 slaughter. Eleven people were murdered by the British Army’s notorious Parachute Regiment in the West Belfast estate in a 36-hour period in August in 1971. For decades the families of […]
TRAFFIC CHAOS
LOCAL community and political representatives have accused DRD Roads Service of a “lack of consultation” over major roadworks that are due to start on the Glen Road on Monday. The resurfacing works are expected to take up to six weeks to complete. In letters distributed in the Glen Road and Suffolk areas Roads Service has […]
West Belfast turns green, white and red for big game
West Belfast was a sea of green and white and red yesterday as Celtic and Cliftonville partied side-by-side ahead of the big Champions League game at Solitude. Indeed you were just as likely to hear a Glaswegian accent as a Belfast brogue as fans mixed in searing heat and visitors to the city from across […]
STATUE OF VIRGIN MARY ON BONFIRE
A STATUE of the Virgin Mary has been placed on a bonfire in a move that has caused outrage in Catholic West Belfast. The statue was carefully positioned on a mammoth structure at Lanark Way off the Springfield Road. In an added insult, the statue’s face had been hacked off. Late yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) the […]