Mater Hospital campaigners concerns over the removal of the sign from the front of the Crumlin Road building have been allayed by local health trust. The ‘Mater Infirmorum Hospital’ sign was removed over Christmas and Brian Mullen from the Mater Hospital Community Forum said they were concerned that the name was being changed due to […]
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‘Infirmorum’ removal not a sign of the times
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Housing to be built at Glengormley PSNI station
Glengormley PSNI barracks is to be levelled to provide social housing, the North Belfast News has learned. The station, which has been empty since June 2012, was closed due to a lack of use and had been costing £160,000 a year to run. The Policing Board approved its closure in December of that year and […]
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Community ‘disgusted’ by extortion bid on workers at much needed park
A building firm employed by Belfast City Council to upgrade a New Lodge play park pulled its employees from the site last week after an extortion bid on workers. On their first day on the Victoria Parade site last Thursday (9 January), two men approached the contractors and demanded protection payments. The builders immediately left […]
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‘Loyalist criminality will be exposed by UPRG’
A North Belfast UPRG member has said his group plan to expose the ‘criminal conspiracy that lies behind efforts to marginalise the current loyalist leadership in the area’. John Howcroft says they will use the next edition of their quarterly publication to outline what he says is the criminality of those who have taken to […]
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£400k funding shortfall won’t delay 174 opening
The development of a multi million pound cultural centre in North Belfast has suffered a setback after £400k of expected funding fell through. Rev Bill Shaw says the shortfall will not put back the official opening of the 174 Trust’s Duncairn Cultural Arts Centre, but it is money that will now have to be found […]
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Paisley’s judgement day
WHAT was it that prompted Ian Paisley to say the words he said in Monday’s BBC programme during which the former First Minister and former Free Presbyterian Moderator spoke to Eamonn Mallie about his long life and political career? Was it intimations of his mortality, in the wake of a lengthy bout of serious illness? […]
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