THE long awaited planning decision for the redevelopment of Casement Park is anticipated to be made before the end of this year. Speaking to the Andersonstown News, following meetings this week with the Department for Communities (DfC) and Ulster GAA, West Belfast MP Paul Maskey said that as “far as I can ascertain, all the […]
Archive | July, 2019
Casement Park decision due by the end of year
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Sailin’ away on the crest of a wave
TO understand today’s music scene in West Belfast you have to go way back to brass, reed and silver bands. There were 13 children in our house, a sure sign you were from the Falls during the 70s, and St Peter’s Brass and Reed Band and St Paul’s Silver Band featured prominently in our lives. […]
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Pic of the day, Monday, July 29
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Defib lesson well learnt
A NEW defibrillator has been installed at Stewartstown Road’s popular Coffee House Bistro. And the life-saving equipment is now on the doorstep of the surrounding businesses and shops. Owner of the Coffee House, Jim McIlwaine, explained how a medical emergency in the coffee shop on a busy Saturday lunchtime was the inspiration for the new […]
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Our common bond with Kenyan struggle
IN the early eighties, the formulation of the weekly Andersonstown News editorial followed a strict procedure. Séamus Mac Seáin, polymath and printer who wrote no other material for the people’s press would call the staff, such as it was, into the editorial room — formerly the living room of a flat above shops on the […]
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Pic of the day, Saturday, July 27
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