THE West Belfast community and boxing fraternity were united in grief on Friday as mourners gathered from early morning in a rain soaked Hannahstown for the Requiem Mass for slain boxer Eamonn Magee Junior. 22-year-old Eamonn Jnr, the son of former WBU welterweight champion Eamonn Magee Senior, was brutally stabbed to death in the early […]
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Large crowds at Hannahstown as ‘blue-eyed boy’ Eamonn Jnr is laid to rest
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£30,000 spent on Ballyduff bonfire dubbed ‘the Beast’ – but it will burn tyres in defiance of council protocol
Ratepayers in Newtownabbey who last year voiced their anger at £30,000 being spent on a permanent platform for a bonfire in Ballyduff are to fork out up to £44,000 for Twelfth of July celebrations across the new super council area next month. And in a bizarre twist, the Ballyduff bonfire for which the platform was […]
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Man injured in bookies massacre tells of hearing news of murder rifle in museum
A Belfast man shot and injured in the Sean Graham’s massacre has described the moment when families were told the murder weapon was on display in a British museum. Mark Sykes, who was shot in the attack that killed his teenage brother-in-law Peter Magee, was speaking after last week’s BBC Panorama programme on security force […]
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Emotional scenes as vigil is held near the garden where pro-boxer Eamonn Magee Jnr was stabbed to death
HUNDREDS of people came out to support the family of slain boxer Eamonn Magee Junior at a vigil held in his memory last night. Eamonn Magee Senior and his wife Mary were backed by friends, family and sympathisers as they stood close to the scene in Summerhill Park where Eamonn Jnr was brutally stabbed to […]
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Ex-world champion boxer Eamonn Magee Snr says of his dead son: ‘It was a pleasure for him to be mine’
A 32-year-old man is due to appear in Craigavon Magistrates Court today charged with the murder of pro-boxer Eamonn Magee Junior. The victim (22) was stabbed in the garden of his girlfriend’s house in the early hours of Saturday morning after he went out to check on the arrival of a pizza the couple had […]
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Police continue to question man after murder of Belfast boxer Eamonn Magee Jnr
Police are today continuing to question a 32-year-old man about the murder of pro-boxer Eamonn Magee Junior after being granted an extension. The man was arrested on Saturday morning, hours after the brutal slaying of 22-year-old Eamonn, who was stabbed several times in a friend’s garden in Summerhill Park, Twinbrook, at around 2.30am. Police believe […]
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