Police continue to refuse to reveal the amount of patrols that take place in Ormeau Park, despite a local District Policing Partnership (DPP) meeting disclosing the PSNI have been called to 18 incidents there since the start of the year.
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Rain can’t dampen St Brigids’ spirits
St Brigid’s sent two teams to compete in the annual Jack McCartan tournament at St Paul’s recently and, despite terrible weather conditions, both the girls and boys performed very well on the day.
Blanketmen reunion a huge success as former comrades flock to massive event
There were emotional scenes at the weekend as hundreds of former blanketmen met in West Belfast – many for the first time since leaving the H-Blocks. It was the biggest gathering of blanketmen since they suffered together in Long Kesh during those dark days of 1976 to 1981.
Up from Cork to meet a hero of our wounded city
As part of the prep work for a new documentary commissioned by TG4 to mark the centenary of the Titanic launch, I spent the weekend trailing around after Ainle Ó Cairealláin, the talented young presenter of the planned hour-long programme, ‘An Chathair Ghonta’ (‘Wounded City’).
Thief helps himself to charity box cash
THIS is the moment a heartless thief helped himself to money raised at a West Belfast bar in aid of a local cancer charity.In shocking CCTV footage shown to the Andersonstown News, a man wearing a grey hooded top is caught red-handed by security cameras
Local dancers go down a storm in London
A group of local dancers travelled to a prestigious London stage school recently to take part in a week-long series of master classes taught by top industry professionals.
