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Féile’s Golden Ticket

FÉILE25 organisers have turned up the party setting to ‘11’ with a special new ticket for people who want to enjoy the final weekend’s celebrations in style. Festivalgoers can now enjoy Coronas and Walking on Cars on Friday, August 9, Damien Dempsey and Joby Fox on Saturday, August 10 and the closing night’s  August 11 […]

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In tune for Féile as St Agnes’ is filled with sacred song

AN invitation to ‘Come On and Celebrate’ has gone out to the community to take part in an evening of music worship and praise at St Agnes’ Church as part of Féile an Phobail. Local singer songwriter Olive Keys, the Belfast Choir Assembly and St Agnes’ Vigil Choir will perform on Sunday August 11 at […]

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Mad for it: Happy Mondays and Charlatans are Féile-bound

It’s shaping up to be the best Féile ever with the news that two titans of the massive Madchester indie rock scene – The Charlatans and Happy Mondays – are to play the West Belfast festival. The Falls Park will play host to the joint headliners who will perform on Sunday, August 4 in what […]

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DUMPING HINDERING SEARCH FOR GRAVES

HEARTLESS dumpers who are illegally depositing waste over the location of Milltown Cemetery burial grounds are badly hampering the search for the grave sites of the poor – including babies. In a special feature for the Andersonstown News today ahead of Milltown Cemetery Sunday which is due to take place at the weekend, an archaeologist […]

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You can’t Beat this for a Féile line-up

THE cream of Irish traditional and international music acts are signing on the dotted line for Féile an Phobail’s massive 25th birthday. Every week more and more bands and musicians are confirming they’ll be in West Belfast in August with the festival shaping up to be the biggest party ever in West Belfast. Last week […]

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Feargal unveils his new labour of love

Irish language activist and Andersonstown News columnist Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh is preparing to launch his new book. Language, Resistance and Revival: Republican Prisoners and the Irish Language in the North of Ireland will be unveiled in West Belfast before Feargal flies off to the United States for a whirlwind launch tour. The Upper Springfield man […]

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