Fleeing gunmen left a ‘military grade Kalashnikov’ sticking out of a plant pot on an Ardoyne street last week after firing shots at a passing PSNI patrol. The armed dissident republican gang are thought to have panicked as they made their escape last Thursday (December 5) along Butler Walk after using a scaffolding platform to […]
Archive | December, 2013
Fleeing dissidents leave AK in plant pot
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Smithwick was ‘weak’ on his collusion claim
One of Belfast’s leading Sinn Féin figures says he doesn’t believe there was any collusion in the IRA killing of RUC Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan. In an in-depth interview with the Andersonstown News, Chair of Belfast Sinn Féin, former prisoner Bobby Storey, says the men – the most senior RUC men […]
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Depression and anxiety which led to suicide bids means ‘war is far from over’ for former activist
A New Lodge man who had six separate attempts made on his life by loyalists has described for the first time the mental scars he bears almost twenty years after the ceasefires. Denis O’Hagan (64) says he believes he is not the only one who is struggling to get over the conflict, but hopes that […]
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‘Gentle giant’ has both hands smashed in horrific hammer attack
A Rosapenna Street man who had his hands smashed with a claw hammer has been described by neighbours as ‘a gentle giant’ uninvolved in any criminality. Stephen Burns (52) was attacked in his home in the early hours of last Thursday morning (5 December) when a group of four or five men broke into his […]
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‘Irish Volunteers’ addict in weekend car chase
A DISSIDENT republican barred from every chemist in West Belfast is believed to have been the target of a police chase through Twinbrook in broad daylight at the weekend. Police were called to the estate on Saturday afternoon when neighbours spotted the well-known criminal, who we have reported on before, approaching a house in the […]
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Anger at Lisburn’s snub for Mandela
THE decision by Lisburn City Council not to open a book of condolences for the late Nelson Mandela has been described as “extremely disappointing” by a Colin Councillor. Speaking to the Andersonstown News yesterday, Sinn Féin Councillor David Bell said that he had sent an email to the Mayor, DUP Councillor for Dunmurry Cross Margaret […]
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