A US-based Cliftonville fan has donated a season ticket to a Belfast-based Cystic Fibrosis Family Support group. Bryan Eitz, who understandably cannot attend Solitude on a regular basis, purchased a Family Season ticket for the Reds, which the club decided to donate to the group. Run by West Belfast woman Lorraine Conlon, the organisation seeks […]
Archive | August, 2017
Cliftonville fan donates season ticket to family support group
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Half Moon fáilte for Syrian guests
LENADOON Community Forum has hosted a delegation of Syrian refugees at the Half Moon Lakek. Cairde Loch na Leathghealaí and workers from Belfast City Council put on a day’s event for men from Syria who were forced to flee their homeland due to the conflict there. On their arrival at the Half Moon Lake they […]
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SF urge vesting of land to fight housing crisis
A SINN Féin delegation has met with Department of Infrastructure officials to ask them to vest land in North Belfast to deal with the housing waiting list. The meeting was held in the wake of the loss of the Hillview site to a retail development and the revelation that over £1.1 million of government money […]
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Local pupils celebrate GCSE successes
PUPILS from across North Belfast were celebrating exam success on Thursday after receiving their GCSE results. Mercy College have particular cause for celebration after posting their best ever set of GCSE results, with over 80 per cent of girls achieving five GCSE grades A*-C, figures which have doubled upon last year. Orla Elwood was […]
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Friends and family of victim to protest
FRIENDS and family of a young father who was brutally murdered are appealing to families let down by the justice system to join them at a protest in the city centre. 20-year old Christopher Meli was killed in December 2015. Close friend Rachael Garland, who met “baby-faced” Christopher in Belfast Metropolitan College almost five years ago, […]
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Fitzsimons withdraws from Antrim managerial race
FRANK Fitzsimons will not manage Antrim in 2018 after withdrawing from the race following the decision of the county executive to seek ‘expressions of interest’ from other parties. At Monday night’s heated County Board meeting, it emerged that Fitzsimons was the only candidate put forward by the clubs and his nomination was approved at the […]
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