UP TO £20,000 worth of stolen pallets are to be burnt on the monster Lanark Way bonfire on the Eleventh Night. The distinctive blue pallets pictured on the bonfire are the property of pallet rental company CHEP and are said to be worth between £15 and £20 apiece. They are much heavier and stronger than […]
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Biggest ever Irish boxing audience expected as Frampton fight confirmed for Titanic Slipways
Titanic slipways will be the venue for the IBF World Super Bantamweight Title fight between Carl Frampton and Kiko Martinez. The venue was announced on Tuesday at a press conference in the Titanic Centre in Belfast for the September 6 fight. Organisers will hope he re-match between the two rivals will be a repeat of […]
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Badly in need of democrats
They say the Scottish independence movement is having success on at least one front: they’re rounding up people who haven’t bothered to register to vote or who normally wouldn’t vote. Having found them, they’re hopeful they can persuade them to vote Yes in September. It’s expected that voter turn-out on September 18 will be spectacular […]
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Happy Twelfth?
The Twelfth will soon be upon us again. Festivals in most places make people wish each other Happy Fourth, Happy Christmas, Happy Mother’s Day, but before the Twelfth we say, Hope there’ll be no trouble. Will it ever be a festival with everybody celebrating, rather than a day of doom with half the population leaving […]
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Boney advice is so much hot air
TAKE a look at this thing on the right. It’s got to be 80 feet high and its core is full of tyres and sofas that, when burnt, give off the kind of toxic fumes that have been outlawed by the Geneva Convention. It’s at Lanark Way, and this year the Shankill has gone all […]
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Trust blasted over ‘mass tower evictions’
FALLS SDLP Councillor Colin Keenan has called for an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust after hospital staff were told they have to move out of Trust accommodation in West Belfast. Residents of the Broadway Towers complex were notified by letter that they must leave the accommodation by the end of January 2015 in what […]
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