SHAWS Bridge children’s play park is set to benefit from £165,000 of Belfast City Council funding as part of ambitious refurbishment plans. As part of its Playground Improvement Programme, Belfast City Council intend to commence work at the end of this month so that the play park will be in full ‘swing’ come the Easter […]
EYE ON THE PAST: January 4 & 11, 1975
Sad home coming for Mary and Billy IT was a sad Christmas for Mary and Billy Kennedy despite their release from internment on Christmas Eve. For the Kennedys – parents of seven children – found their maisonette home in Divis Flats in ruins when they returned to it just hours before Christmas. Ceilings and walls […]
John could be your new country voice of Ireland
THE ever-talented West Belfast musician John Rafferty will battle it out on TG4’s Glór Tíre talent show in the coming weeks as he looks to become Ireland’s next big country music star. Industry heavyweights reviewed video performances from singers across the country in the search and have narrowed it down to a final six. Whiterock […]
Pic of the day, Friday, January 11
Please follow and like us:
Takeover of SDLP won’t be all plain sailing for Micheál
NEWS that the SDLP is on the cusp of hooking up with Fianna Fáil hasn’t half spooked the horses. The problem’s not so much that the Stoops are flailing around to find a way to stave off their demise – that’s just common sense – the problem is that nobody outside a tiny cabal at […]
Spotting enemies of the people
NEW Year files being declassified feel a lot less like history. This year it was disconcerting to read disclosure of NIO briefings from 1990 refer to friends and colleagues being named along with their organisations. The Committee on the Administration of Justice was the subject of one of the documents, a document we know was […]