The variety and sheer scale of events taking place during Féile an Phobail, which starts today, Thursday, and runs over the next 11 days, is best illustrated by the fact that this year’s programme runs to 108 pages. Celebrating its 25th birthday, Ireland biggest community arts festival and summer school is packed with music, plays, […]
Big fun in the Big Tent as the West prepares to party
Rooftop garden blooms over the Falls
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme… It might sound like a line from a Simon and Garfunkel song but these are actually just some of the plants growing in the Cultúrlann’s new community garden 30 feet above the Falls Road. The herbs are growing alongside lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, strawberries, lavender, onions and more in the rooftop […]
OAP distraught as bus thief takes wallet
A West Belfast pensioner says he has been left “distraught” after his wallet containing £260 was left on a bus on July 12 – and has yet to be handed in. The 69-year-old from News Barnsley, who’s asked not to be named, told the Andersonstown News that he believes he is the victim of a […]
Local satisfaction as Council moves in to remove bonfire
Belfast City Council moved into a Ballymurphy street this week to remove a towering pile of wood intended for an internment night bonfire. The pile, 15 feet in height, had been collected by local youths over the past six weeks and placed on a derelict site between two homes in Whitecliff Parade. The unstable bonfire […]
£3,000 or we’ll shoot your son
A Criminal gang is demanding £3,000 from Poleglass families, threatening that if they don’t pay up “your drug-dealing children will be shot”. A key member of the gang is a Twinbrook thug with such a heavy addiction to prescription drugs that he has been barred from every chemist in the West Belfast area. The man […]