A North Belfast victims’ campaigner researching the rubber bullet death of an 11-year-old boy in Belfast claims to have uncovered documents showing that a new plastic bullet was to be trialled on Catholics in Derry just days after the child’s killing. Campaigner and researcher Ciarán MacAirt, who runs the Paper Trail charity, has spent thousands […]
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Soon to be Deputy Lord Mayor, Mary Ellen Campbell opens up about her political life and the fight against inequality as she prepares to become the city’s first openly gay holder of civic office
Despite only having served six years as an elected representative in Belfast City Council, Mary Ellen Campbell is no stranger to the sweeping hallways and grandeur of City Hall. As a young child her father, who worked as a porter for the city, regularly would have had her six sisters and four bothers in his […]
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‘EVIL SCUM’ WHO ROBBED OAP (81)
A WEST Belfast woman has described the armed gang who stole her elderly mother’s £26,000 life savings as “nothing more than evil, dirty scum”. Three generations of women from the same family were subjected to a terrifying ordeal late on Friday night when three masked men, two armed with handguns, forced their way into the […]
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New era for Maysfield as work forges ahead
WORK has begun by global customer services firm Concentrix to convert the old Maysfield Leisure Centre site into state-of-the-art office space. Philip Cassidy, a senior vice president at Concentrix, said: “We will have space for 1,600 seats, hopefully work will be finished by early next year. We’ve just finished the internal demolition and within the […]
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Vigil for murdered Ardoyne man
Hundreds of people turned out in Ardoyne at a vigil for murdered father of four Michael McGibbon. Mr McGibbon’s family were joined by friends and neighbours in the grounds of Holy Cross Church last night. The vigil was organised by Holy Cross Rector Fr Gary Donegan who commended Mr McGibbon’s widow for her “courage, compassion […]
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Michael McGibbon vigil
Fr Gary Donegan hit out at the killers of Michael McGibbon calling on them to “turn away from these futile deeds.” Please follow and like us:
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