St Thomas’ Secondary Intermediate School was opened in September 1957. In April of that year, I remember the muscular caretaker, a local man, showing me around the empty, gleaming gymnasium and the new-smelling, loud tiled corridors. All the sounds of walking through an empty school that has no thumbprints feel oddly spooky. A cement mixer […]
Archive | September, 2013
Literary geniuses side-by-side in staff-room of local school
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Celts’ Bohemian rhapsody found in dusty archive
101 years after it was taken, an historic photograph of Belfast Celtic while on tour in Europe has emerged from the archives. Painting a fascinating picture of the club’s 1912 tour of Bohemia – now the Czech Republic – the image [opposite page] was uncovered this week by the Belfast Celtic Society. Celtic’s official touring […]
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Man who left his mark on the Falls
The architect behind some of our most stunning buildings, including St Mary’s Dominican Convent on the Falls Road – now part of St Dominic’s – has been celebrated this week with the launch of his complete works of poetry. The poetry of Pádraic Gregory, who served as a Falls Road councillor for many years after […]
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Casement public inquiry demanded
Residents opposed to the redevelopment of Casement Park have called on the Environment Minister Mark H Durkan to hold a public inquiry into the proposed new stadium. This morning the Moreland Owenvarragh Residents’ Association (MORA) will present their demand for an inquiry and their detailed objections to the Casement proposal to the Department of Environment’s […]
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Large drugs find near nursery school
Thousands of pounds worth of drugs, believed to be cocaine, have been found lying on a street in broad daylight outside a West Belfast childcare centre. The bag (below_ was discovered last Friday morning in St Agnes Drive by a passer-by who took the drugs to the nearby Sinn Féin office at Connolly House. Benny […]
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Murdered Patricia’s family left in ’72
THE family of the West Belfast woman who was murdered in County Cavan last week moved away from the district in the early 1970s. The 56-year-old husband of Patricia Kierans has appeared in court charged with her murder. Oliver Kierans, with an address at Drumbannon in Bailieborough, Co Cavan, was charged with the murder of […]
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