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Archive | July, 2014

Boney advice is so much hot air

TAKE a look at this thing on the right. It’s got to be 80 feet high and its core is full of tyres and sofas that, when burnt, give off the kind of toxic fumes that have been outlawed by the Geneva Convention. It’s at Lanark Way, and this year the Shankill has gone all […]

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Bookie gets his back up in Sandy Row

I came back from the Down v Leitrim game last Sunday on the Ulsterbus Express. I was delighted when the driver left the dual carriageway he took a route through a private road which meant we avoided Sandy Row and Boyne Bridge. The first time I was on Sandy Row was in 1965. I spent […]

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Trust blasted over ‘mass tower evictions’

FALLS SDLP Councillor Colin Keenan has called for an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust after hospital staff were told they have to move out of Trust accommodation in West Belfast. Residents of the Broadway Towers complex were notified by letter that they must leave the accommodation by the end of January 2015 in what […]

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Return parade banned

The Parades Commission has ruled that Orangemen will not be allowed to return past Nationalist homes on the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne on July 12. The determination, released just before noon today (Thursday) as the North Belfast News went to print, will be met with relief in nationalist Ardoyne. Talks between residents and the Orange […]

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Carmel puts away the chalk after 37 St Louise’s years

AS pupils and teachers prepare for the summer break, a local head is clearing her desk for the final time after 37 years. As St Louise’s Principal Carmel McCartan tidied up her office on Monday morning, packing away the many gifts she has received in recent weeks, I arrived for a chat about her career […]

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Woman dragged from car in hijack horror

CONDEMNATION has been swift after the hijacking of a local woman’s car in Poleglass. On Saturday evening, a female driver was pulled out of her car on the Brians Well Road by three masked men, one of them thought to be armed, as she delivered medicine to her son. The car was later found burnt […]

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