A New Lodge mother of two who had her car shot into in January says she is ‘terrified’ after a pipe bomb was left at the same vehicle outside her home this week. Lindsey Ward says Wednesday’s attack, when a device described by the PSNI as ‘viable’ was left at her Spamount Street home, is […]
Archive | June, 2014
Pipe bomb mum pleads for an end to attacks
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Rúbaí reds up at movie awards
An Irish language film which features a young girl who declares her atheism in the run up to her First Holy Communion has won the Belfast Film Festival Short Film Competition Sponsored by the Belfast Media Group the 14th Belfast Film Festival Short Film Competition featured entries from across the country of films up to […]
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Heroin kit found
A lower Falls community worker is calling for strict drug safety measures to be implemented after the discovery of a heroin kit and other drug paraphernalia in the district. The grim discovery was made on Saturday afternoon in a back garden close to the popular Divis Play Project crèche at the Frank Gillen Centre. Speaking […]
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Community unites to reject racist thugs
A Nigerian man who was verbally and physically assaulted in what is being treated as a racist attack says he and his family have no choice but to move from their home in the Sliabh Dubh estate after the gang threatened to burn his house down. 36-year-old Ade (we’re not using his full name) was […]
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West Belfast surrounded by loyalist flags
Sinn Féin Councillor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has made contact with loyalists in Finaghy in a bid to ease flag tensions ahead of the Twelfth. Councillor Ó Muilleoir made the move after a number of double-sized unionist flags were erected in the Finaghy crossroads area. The flags went up late last week in an area that […]
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Murdered man’s family plead for information
The family of Kevin Kearney who was brutally murdered in a park in broad daylight last October have made a renewed appeal for information ahead of Fathers Day this weekend. The mother of two of the 46 year old’s four children, Charlene Whelan, says both her and Kevin’s three youngest children, Amy, 5, Jessica, 8, […]
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