TAOISEACH Enda Kenny laid a bouquet of flowers at a memorial plaque to victims of the Ballymurphy Massacre on an early morning visit to West Belfast today. Mr Kenny was greeted by Ballymurphy families spokesperson John Teggart as the Taoiseach took time to listen to relatives whose loved ones where shot and killed by the […]
Archive | March, 2015
Enda visits Ballymurphy killing ground as families’ quest for justice continues
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Belfast man sees close-up how Lenten donations are changing people’s lives
David O’Hare travelled to Ethiopia recently to see how our Lenten donations are helping fund Trócaire projects and are changing lives for the better… Readers will have read throughout Lent about the problems facing a huge amount of people in Ethiopia. With most of the 90 million population relying on rain-fed crops to feed themselves […]
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Brazen daylight theft threatens future of charity shop
A pair of shameless thieves have stolen bags filled with stock from a Belfast charity shop – throwing the future of the business into doubt. The brazen twosome were caught on CCTV driving into the rear area of the What’s In Store charity shop off the Springfield Road on Monday afternoon and making off with […]
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Elks out to make history as they head west for showdown in Galway
Excitement’s building in the world of local basketball ahead of the appearance of the Jordanstown-based Ulster Elks in the final of the National Shield on Sunday. It’s a tough ask for Elks U18s who are competing for the coveted trophy with Connacht outfit Moycullen – they beat the Ulster girls in the semi-final of the […]
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Belfast’s New First Citizen vows he’ll be a ‘Mayor for Communities’
SINN Féin’s Arder Carson was last night elected as first Lord Mayor of the new Belfast ‘super council’. Councillor Carson will take the chair and the chain of First Citizen at the first meeting of the reconfigured Belfast City Council on April 1. The deputy chair of the Council’s influential Strategic Policy and Resources Committee, […]
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Six days of ‘celebration’ that have the Ambulance Service at full stretch
We’ve been in close contact in recent weeks with ambulance staff as we covered the industrial stoppage of Friday, May 13 and the controversial decision of Ambulance Service management to declare a major incident two hours before crews were to due to go on strike, writes our diarist Squinter in his sideways look at the […]
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