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Archive | May, 2015

Relatives hope bomb attack witnesses in black and white picture will come forward after 43 years

AN appeal has been launched to find the people in this photograph, taken minutes after a UVF car-bomb attack on a Belfast bar over 40 years ago which claimed three lives and injured over 60. The photograph was taken shortly after the bomb exploded without warning outside the packed Kelly’s Bar on the Whiterock Road […]

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Another Lyric first for Dan as theatre stages first ‘Gunman’ production for 10 years

Belfast actor Dan Gordon is about to make his long-awaited debut on the Lyric’s Danske Bank Stage in the theatre’s new co-production with the Abbey Theatre of Sean O’Casey’s masterpiece The Shadow of a Gunman. Best known for his portrayal of Red Hand Luke in the BBC Northern Ireland sitcom Give My Head Peace, Dan […]

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Extraordinary scenes as knife-wielding girl-gang invades a North Belfast street

Brave North Belfast residents who confronted a knife-wielding gang of girls have spoken of their shock at having to take weapons from children as young as 11. A ten-inch kitchen knife was taken off one girl in the Newington invasion before the gang – who were also armed with craft knives, hurls and golf clubs […]

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