THE fascinating and hidden history of a statue which takes pride of place at the entrance to the Oratory in Clonard Monastery can be revealed today by Daily Belfast. The carving was made by an inmate of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a German Redemptorist priest. The statue of St Gerard Majella was given by the priest […]
Archive | September, 2015
Clonard sculpture was carved by an inmate of Nazi concentration camp
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Man arrested after McGuigan murder speaks out: ‘No evidence put to me over two days and now I’m suing Chief Constable’
A West Belfast man is suing the Chief Constable for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and unlawful detention after he was arrested and subsequently released without charge after the brutal murder of Kevin McGuigan. 49-year-old Sean Clinton was arrested from his Mooreland Park home in Andersonstown on Wednesday, August 19 and held for 36 hours at […]
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On Katrina anniversary, a soccer team that rose from a Belfast couple’s bar under the New Orleans floodwater recalls 10 tumultuous years
I’m the last man standing. More than a decade after Finn McCool’s Football Club played our first soccer game, I’m the sole survivor from that team still playing. August 29 was the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the most devastating natural disaster to ever hit America. After it roared ashore in late summer 2005 it […]
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Man to appear in court today on two charges of attempted murder following double Dunmurry stabbing
A man will this morning be charged with two counts of attempted murder following a double-stabbing in West Belfast. The 35-year-old will appear in Craigavon Magistrates Court to face the charges plus a further charge of aggravated burglary. The charges were brought after two women were assaulted at a house in Cloona Manor in the […]
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