PLANS to amalgamate CBS and St Mary’s Christian Brothers Grammar School have been scrapped after the St Mary’s Board of Governors on Monday night voted in favour of retaining academic selection. Proposals to merge the neighbouring Glen Road post-primaries were unveiled in May with a number of consultations held between parents, staff and trustees. However, […]
St Mary’s and CBS merger is called off
New Casement application
The GAA are set to submit a second planning application for a new Casement Park after a humbling week in the High Court. On Monday Mr Justice Horner found the decision by Environment Minister Mark H Durkan to grant planning permission for the £77 million, 38,000-seater stadium to be “unlawful” and it is expected to […]
‘Inspirational’ Una Crudden is laid to rest
AFTER the wintry sleet that had fallen earlier that morning, sun streamed through the windows of the Church of the Nativity for the Requiem Mass of inspirational ovarian cancer campaigner Una Crudden on Monday. The 60-year-old mother-of-five lost her brave five-year battle with the disease last Thursday. Hundreds of mourners, including Lord Mayor Nichola Mallon, […]
Newtownabbey man jailed for historic sex attack
A Newtownabbey man was jailed for six months in Belfast Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of two sexual assaults against a nine year old when he was 20. The 45-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of one count of indecent assault on a female and a second of […]
Relatives take fight for justice to No.10
FAMILIES fighting for justice and truth travelled to Downing Street yesterday (Wednesday) as part of the ‘In Their Footsteps’ campaign. The Ballymurphy Massacre families and the McGurk’s bar families were among those who went to the English capital to raise awareness of their battles to bring to account those responsible for the death of their […]
Christmas cracker for young mum
The Newtownabbey woman who was left ‘scratching’ her head at her luck after a Black Friday shopping trip turned into a dream day has said she plans to give her three year old son a dream Christmas with her winnings. Twenty three year old Bawnmore woman Lauren McLarnon, who is exepecting her second child, said […]