‘Tis the season of goodwill – and the Andersonstown News played its part this week. It started with a near tragedy – a stricken seagull facing death after an accident – and ended with it being given a real chance of survival thanks to a big-hearted motorist. Reader Donna was driving on the Suffolk Road […]
Archive | December, 2017
Andytown News comes to rescue of injured gull
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MY FIRST DRUG– FREE CHRISTMAS IN SEVEN YEARS
Twenty-year-old Jack Brennan says this is the first Christmas since he was 13 that his mum “won’t have to worry about me”. When the Andersonstown News last spoke to the young Glen Road man back in May, he had been kicked out of rehab in England after only eleven days, and in a moving cry […]
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Girdwood to host Christmas concert for homeless
AN international orchestra made up of musicians from across Europe will hold a special concert at the Girdwood Hub to raise money for a local homeless charity. The Belfast based Laganside Sinfonia will perform their Star Wars and Mars from composer Holst’s The Planets concert on Saturday December 30 evening in aid of The Welcome […]
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Report advises Brokenshire to cut MLAs’ salaries
A FORMER Northern Ireland Assembly Chief Executive has advised Secretary of State James Brokenshire to cut MLAs’ salaries. The cut of £13,612 is one of 18 proposals by Trevor Reaney – who is urging Brokenshire to introduce the reduction in two stages. The recommendations come after Brokenshire asked Reaney for his advice on MLA salaries […]
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Worldwide demand for Dockers’ new Winifred Carney memorial coin
A SPECIAL coin commissioned by the group that keeps the memories of Sailortown and the Docks alive to remember Winifred Carney is attracting worldwide demand with people living in Spain and the United States already snapping it up. Winifred Carney is a Belfast legend who cut her teeth as a union rep on the docks […]
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Prescription charges proposal down to ‘Tory austerity”
A BRIEFING paper issued by the Department of Finance on the future of the health service has suggested prescription charges could return to help plug a funding gap in the local NHS. The budget briefing document sets out a number of scenarios that will need to be addressed by the department in the absence of […]
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