The Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents’ Association (MORA) has claimed “a moral victory” after a majority of residents voted in favour of the plan to seek a judicial review of plans to redevelop Casement Park – and to reject financial offers from the contractor. As we reported last week, residents’ votes on two options were to […]
Archive | May, 2014
DUP actions on housing sparks huge row at Stormont
A report that claims to lay bare the extent to which the DUP is getting involved in lobbying for housing changes in North Belfast sparked a huge row in Stormont this week, with nationalist parties uniting to accuse the party of engaging in ‘gerrymandering’. An extensive report released on investigative journalism website ‘The Detail’ published […]
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‘Freelance’ ONH group behind pub firebombing
A ‘freelance’ ONH group, working separately from the west Belfast leadership, was behind the burning of an Oldpark bar in an attempt to curry favour locally. The North Belfast gang, who are only loosely affiliated with the ONH leadership in the west of the city, torched The Corner House bar in April. And the North […]
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Taoiseach to visit ‘Murph
By Anthony Neeson a.neeson@belfastmediagroup.com Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to travel to West Belfast to meet the families of the 11 innocents who were killed by the Parachute Regiment over three days in August 1971 in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Enda Kenny made the commitment during his response to a question in the […]
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Over £300,000 cannabis haul is discovered in Hughenden house
Three men and a woman have been charged in relation to a seizure of cannabis worth £330,000 in a North Belfast house. The men, aged 23, 30 and 48 and the woman, aged 38, appeared in Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday (May 3). The accused, who are all foreign nationals, were remanded in custody to […]
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Loyalists stoking interface trouble
BY Evan Short e.short@belfastmediagroup.com A DISSIDENT loyalist faction has been accused of stoking interface tensions after it claimed a fight between two youths was part of a sectarian rampage. Politicians, community workers and police have all dismissed the claims that a group of ‘up to 50 armed republican youths’ stormed through Tigers Bay last week […]
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