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Archive | July, 2015

Look out for this trio during the Féile parade

A trio of nurse’s working at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC) are preparing to climb and conquer Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania all the while raising funds and awareness for the Helping Hand charity. Based in the Children’s Hospital Helping Hand was established to provide the best equipment, to fund research, education and […]

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McGuinness is “wasting his time”: Foster

Stormont Finance Minister Arlene Foster this morning predicted “a real crisis” in the political process if Sinn Féin doesn’t concede on welfare cutbacks. And in a brickbat for deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, the DUP finance minister said he was “wasting his time” on his mission this week to the US. Mrs Foster said her […]

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Community rallies round for a very special fundraiser

On March 26 last year life for the Frazer family dramatically and tragically changed forever as their twin boys Diarmuid and Cormac, aged six, were involved in a road traffic accident in Railway Street, Lisburn. Both were rushed to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC). Diarmuid was admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care […]

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Villiers denies MI5 warrants requests

Secretary of State Theresa Villiers denied two requests for ‘urgent warrants’ requested by the British Intelligence Service MI5 in 2014, the watchdog overseeing the intelligence services has revealed. No details of the individuals targeted in the warrant are given in Sir Mark Waller’s report. However, it is being speculated that the Secretary of State balked […]

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Hundreds take part in run to remember Eamonn Magee Jnr

THE sun shone on hundreds of runners on Sunday morning as friends and family of murdered boxer Eamonn Magee Jnr came together for a charity run in his memory. Eamonn’s mother Mary told the Andersonstown News that despite the “rawness” of grief that surrounds the family only seven weeks on since the promising young boxer […]

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Vigil for Alan as PSNI confirm involvement

Death inquiry calls by the family of a 21 year old Newtownabbey man found dead in his hotel room in Ibiza, have been heeded after the PSNI confirmed they are to assist the investigation. Alan Drennan’s family were informed of his death on Sunday (July 19), less than 24 hours after he had travelled to […]

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