The West is definitely the place to go if you want it authentically Irish – and that’s official. But it’s no longer the Gaeltacht areas of the West of Ireland that are top of the Gaeilgeoir pops, but our very own West Belfast. The North’s latest census figures for the numbers of Irish speakers at […]
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West Belfast top of Irish-speaking chart
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Shot man’s body parts are to be reinterred
A body part and body tissue taken from a 19-year-old West Belfast man who was shot dead by the RUC in 1985 will be reinterred in the Milltown grave he shares with his two brothers this Saturday morning. Gerard Logue was shot dead by the RUC as he sat in a vehicle at the junction […]
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Rocket Launcher in derelict house belonged to ONH
ÓGLAIGH na hÉireann (ONH) has launched an internal investigation after a rocket launcher and warhead were found in a derelict house in West Belfast. Police made the discovery at an unoccupied
It only takes 70 flag-waving loyalists to close our town
The flag protest outside Belfast City Hall may no longer be attracting a thousand loyalists, but as this photo shows – taken on Saturday lunchtime during what should be the busiest shopping day of
Loyalists to target saint PAT’S Parade
Bouyed by their success in forcing Saturday’s crunch Irish Premier League game between Cliftonville and Crusaders to be abandoned, the Andersonstown News has learned that loyalist flag protestors
Lisburn backs down on union flag promise
SINN Féin’s Arder Carson says the decision by Lisburn City Council not to conduct a review of its current flag policy in relation to designated days was “a victory for common sense”.
