SQUINTER had no idea people took their sweets so seriously. A throwaway remark on Twitter about a casual purchase, during which Squinter pointed out that he is not in the habit of buying chocolate, provoked a response that suggested he had owned up to being the Mad Axe Murderer of Old Belfast Town.
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All aboard the Domino’s Express
AND so another little bit of Squinter’s life gets set to pass into history. The familiar Land Rover Tangi has been part of the West Belfast landscape for as long as Squinter can remember – battleship-grey in RUC days, poke-van gaudy in its present PSNI incarnation.
Learning from a decade of anniversaries
It’s started. And you’ll hear lots more of it over the coming years. DUP Minister for Social Development Nelson McCausland said this week he’s prepared to consider participating in activities relating to the commemoration of the Easter Rising. No, Virginia, he did not say he would wear a beret and snap a salute outside the GPO.
Priest convicted for fourth time
YESTERDAY at Downpatrick Crown Court paedophile priest Daniel John Curran was convicted for the fourth time in relation to indecently assaulting boys in his care while he was a priest at the Falls Road parish of St Paul’s. Curran, who up until he was jailed yesterday had been living at an address at Bryansford Avenue in Newcastle, pleaded guilty to five counts of sexually abusing two boys in his care while they stayed at a cottage in Tyrella,
Victim relives abuse at hands of Fr Curran
A WEST Belfast man subjected to a catalogue of abuse at the hands of a former St Paul’s curate saw his tormentor sentenced to four years in prison yesterday. Daniel John Curran appeared at Downpatrick Crown Court on Wednesday, February 29, after admitting to indecently assaulting two boys while they stayed with him at a cottage in Tyrella, County Down in the late-80s and early-90s.
Defiant Santos edge out White City
Santos turned recent tradition on its head on Saturday. Normally they get well ahead, go into freefall then come out on top after a nail-biting last ten minutes in a high scoring game.
