THE link between education and good health is key – and one North Belfast school is going that extra mile to increase participation in sport. Mercy College earlier this month accepted Year 8 boys for the first time and to celebrate the news, the school is investing further in a unique sport project. First introduced […]
Mercy College boys are still on the ball
Party leaders clash over identity
THE two biggest party leaders in the North have clashed over identity and the north’s future role in Europe. Sinn Fein’s northern leader Michelle O’Neill and DUP leader Arlene Foster were on stage together at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester when the war of words erupted. “The north isn’t British,” Mrs O’Neill responded when […]
Politicians unite to condemn loyalist threat at mixed housing development
Sinn Féin and the DUP have united to condemn the intimidation of Catholic families from a shared housing estate in East Belfast. In a joint statement, also signed by the SDLP, Alliance and the Green Party, the parties called on the threat that saw four families Cantrell Close development to be lifted. The statement was […]
Council under fire after admitting it does control Longlands boney land
ANTRIM and Newtownabbey Borough Council have confirmed they are in possession of the Longlands internment bonfire site after previously believing the land to be unregistered. Following a Freedom of Information request from the North Belfast News, the Council says they conducted investigations and found that they are responsible for the site – news which has […]
Rewriting the story of Ulster Gaels
A BELFAST historian has set out to challenge the “Anglo-centric” narrative of the Nine Years War in Ireland by giving a comprehensive reassessment of the military dimensions of the conflict. In his new book, The Nine Years War, Dr James O’Neill has given what is arguably the most complete modern assessment of what would become […]
Family move furniture from home after threats
LOYALIST paramilitaries will not turn the clock back to 1969. That’s the message from Sinn Féin South Belfast MLA Máirtín Ó Muilleoir after a Catholic family returned to their home on the Ravenhill Road on Saturday to move furniture out after threats from the UVF. Last week the family, along with three other Catholic families […]