Irish hit machine Boyzone are set to grace the Falls Park this summer when they perform at Féile an Phobail 2014. The Dublin lads signed on the dotted line this week, securing another massive coup for Féile after they signed the Kaiser Chiefs earlier this year for the same festival. But the crowd will be […]
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Boyzone to play West Belfast, no matter what
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MORA claims victory in Casement vote
The Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents’ Association (MORA) has claimed “a moral victory” after a majority of residents voted in favour of the plan to seek a judicial review of plans to redevelop Casement Park – and to reject financial offers from the contractor. As we reported last week, residents’ votes on two options were to […]
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Taoiseach to visit ‘Murph
By Anthony Neeson a.neeson@belfastmediagroup.com Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to travel to West Belfast to meet the families of the 11 innocents who were killed by the Parachute Regiment over three days in August 1971 in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Enda Kenny made the commitment during his response to a question in the […]
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ONH shot ex-CIRA boss
óglaigh na héireann have been named as the killers behind the murder of ex-CIRA leader Tommy Crossan. The well-known 43-year-old was gunned down as he sat in the office of a diesel yard on the Springfield Road last month. Sources say the killing was the result of a growing feud between ONH and the Irish […]
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Cash or court? Casement residents split
The Andersonstown News has learned that after two meetings held in the course of the past week residents living near Casement Park are divided between pressing ahead with an intended judicial review to block work on the new Casement or accepting a “significant sum” from the developers to let work begin on the new £78 […]
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Joe: Why we should get involved in WWI events
A former IRA prisoner says nationalists should be involved in some of the centenary commemorations surrounding World War One this year. Joe was interned on the Maidstone prison ship in 1972 and later in Long Kesh. He famously spent nine years in a US prison fighting extradition to the north and was eventually sent back […]
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