There’s a fella I meet in the pub most weekends. He always has a smile and he can tell a good story. During the summer he will turn up on a Sunday evening with a healthy colour on his face. Yes, you’ve probably guessed it – he’s a golfer. Now I gave up that game […]
Archive | January, 2014
The secrets of a long-lost medal are finally known
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‘Infirmorum’ removal not a sign of the times
Mater Hospital campaigners concerns over the removal of the sign from the front of the Crumlin Road building have been allayed by local health trust. The ‘Mater Infirmorum Hospital’ sign was removed over Christmas and Brian Mullen from the Mater Hospital Community Forum said they were concerned that the name was being changed due to […]
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Was cop unit diverted to Camp Twaddell?
As the fall-out continues following the New Year death-driving madness in West Belfast, we’ve been told that the specialist police unit tasked with dealing with car crime has been hit by a police reorganisation to provide cover for the nightly protests at ‘Camp Twaddell’. Hoods have been wreaking havoc across West Belfast in recent weeks, […]
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Housing to be built at Glengormley PSNI station
Glengormley PSNI barracks is to be levelled to provide social housing, the North Belfast News has learned. The station, which has been empty since June 2012, was closed due to a lack of use and had been costing £160,000 a year to run. The Policing Board approved its closure in December of that year and […]
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Community ‘disgusted’ by extortion bid on workers at much needed park
A building firm employed by Belfast City Council to upgrade a New Lodge play park pulled its employees from the site last week after an extortion bid on workers. On their first day on the Victoria Parade site last Thursday (9 January), two men approached the contractors and demanded protection payments. The builders immediately left […]
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‘Loyalist criminality will be exposed by UPRG’
A North Belfast UPRG member has said his group plan to expose the ‘criminal conspiracy that lies behind efforts to marginalise the current loyalist leadership in the area’. John Howcroft says they will use the next edition of their quarterly publication to outline what he says is the criminality of those who have taken to […]
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