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Archive | July, 2014

Official IRA say they will ‘retaliate’

The Official IRA are threatening to “retaliate” against individuals who they claim are using the organisation’s name. The Andersonstown News has learned that men claiming to represent the Official IRA have entered several homes in West and North Belfast in recent weeks, confronting the occupants and issuing threats against them. One man was told to […]

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Row over local bonfire tyres

Belfast City Council has threatened to withhold cash for a West Belfast Twelfth bonfire after builders flouted funding terms by filling it with tyres. The bonfire, which is on land between Conway Street and North Howard Street just on the loyalist side of the Falls-Shankill peace wall, is a hollow edifice of wooden pallets which, […]

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