THE sister of a Newtownabbey man who has been missing for a week has pleaded for his safe return. Robert Holmes was last seen in the Lakeview Avenue area of Newtownabbey shortly after 12.50pm last Wednesday, October 17. The 42 year-old, who had just started a new job, is a well-known singer-songwriter on the local […]
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New deacon Gregory tells of his hopes for the job
ONE of the nine men ordained as a Permanent Deacon at St Peter’s Cathedral last Sunday says he and others are “not afraid to see the pain” of parishioners as they begin their ministry across the city. Andersonstown man Gregory McGuigan QC spoke of how he will be beginning a new chaplaincy to the homeless […]
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Man who spent £12k on neighbour’s bank card jailed
A West Belfast man who admitted preventing the burial of an elderly neighbour and whose body lay undiscovered for over two years has been sentenced to two years. 24-year-old Robert Sharkey, of Grays Hill, Bangor was convicted of 11 charges after failing to report 68-year-old Marie Conlon from Larkspur Rise off the Suffolk Road had […]
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Pic of the day, Thursday, October 18
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Ifs and buts and the toss of a coin
THE story of a lorry driver who survived a shooting in his workplace that killed two young men from Sailortown in 1975 is to be told in a new book. By good fortune Frank Tierney was not in the yard of Casey’s Bottling Plant in Millfield on the morning of shooting on Thursday October 2 […]
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