RELATIVES for Justice is to host a commemoration to mark the 25th anniversary of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson, murdered by loyalists in a shooting local people are convinced was an act of collusion. The 25-year-old was shot dead by the UDA in a car in Springfield Park on April 27, 1994. A wall separating Springfield Park […]
Anniversary of ‘Topper’ murder is to be marked
Road safety on agenda for Lisnasharragh rep
MANY of you will have heard about the need for road safety improvements to four specific spots in the upper Ormeau area, writes Stevie Jenkins. They are the crossing at Ormeau Road and St John’s Avenue, the intersection of Knock Eden Park and Knockbreda Road, the entrance to Cherryvale Playing Fields and outside the Good […]
Pic of the day, Friday, April 26
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Julie: File Locked For 45 More Years
THE sister of a 14-year-old Lenadoon girl killed by a plastic bullet in 1981 has hit out a decision to lock the National Archives file on her death for another 45 years. Julie Livingstone was returning from a local shop on the Stewartstown Road when she was fatally injured by a plastic bullet on 12, […]
It’s double delight for little Dáithí
THE family of little Dáithí Mac Gabhann are celebrating after learning that their son has made the shortlist for the annual British Heart Foundation’s Heart Hero awards. It was discovered during a routine 20-week scan that little Dáithí’s heart had not developed as it should have and it was found that the now two-year-old toddler […]
Pic of the day, Thursday, April 25
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