IRELAND’S leading visual artist, Robert Ballagh, best-known for designing coins and banknotes and devising the Riverdance set, visited St Joseph’s College on the Ravenhill Road to meet senior Art students. The Dubliner also viewed work by A-Level students at the school and had warm words of praise for the high quality of the art they’re […]
Archive | December, 2015
Shankill traders lining up a Christmas cracker
Residents in the Shankill area are to be treated to an explosive start to the festive holidays when a fireworks display tops off a packed schedule for the annual Christmas festival. Now in it’s second year, the Christmas festival, organised by the Greater Shankill Traders Forum, is a cross-community event sponsored by Belfast City Council […]
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Cops launch major investigation of MRF drive-by killer team
Police investigating the actions of a murderous band of undercover British soldiers in West Belfast in the 1970s have launched a drive for information. The shadowy Military Reaction Force (MRF) – whose members have admitted to killing unarmed people – were behind a wave of terror in nationalist districts. Seven months after the sensational admissions […]
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Altar boys of ’69 reunited for film on how the Troubles shaped their lives
What have a PSNI superintendent, an ex-Leeds United footballer and the former Director General of RTÉ got in common? Incredibly, they were all once part of the same group of altar boys serving at Holy Cross Church during the Troubles. Last night True North’s ‘Boys of ’69’ documentary aired on BBC and told the fascinating […]
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Two men ‘stable’ after being shot in the legs in West Belfast social club
Two men shot in a paramilitary-style shooting at a West Belfast social club yesterday afternoon are in a stable condition in hospital. Two men with scarves over their faces entered the Grosvenor Homing Pigeon Society premises in Iveagh Street yesterday at around 4pm and ordered two customers to lie on the ground. An eyewitness told […]
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