A woman injured in a suspected hit-and-run incident in West Belfast says she may have lain unconscious by the side of road and ignored by passing pedestrians and motorists for up to 20 minutes. Ballymurphy mum Deirdre Sloan is believed to have been hit by a car as she crossed the Whiterock Road at around […]
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A WEST Belfast artist is set to travel to the Western Sahara as part of an international arts exchange aimed at raising awareness of an ongoing humanitarian crisis there. Raymond Watson will travel to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SARD) to conduct art workshops with refugees in November. He has been invited there by the […]
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We didn’t shoot Edward say OIRA
The Official IRA has denied weekend media reports that they were involved in the murder of West Belfast man Edward Gibson. Mr Gibson was shot on Friday in an alleyway near Divis Flats and died later in hospital. Police are linking the killing to a fight that broke out in the nearby Albert Street not […]
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Vandals’ rampage at local surgery
A doctors’ surgery in the centre of Glengormley suffered extensive damage at the weekend when a gang of youths smashed through the front windows in an orgy of destruction. The attack happened on Friday evening (October 16) and caused extensive damage to the Tramways Medical Centre. GP Colin Spence says they will now reluctantly have […]
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Urgent action required after latest floods
By Ciara Quinn c.quinn@belfastmediagroup.com URGENT action must be taken by the Stormont Executive to address ongoing flooding problems. That was the message from Sinn Féin councillors Matt Garrett and Máirtín Ó Muilleoir as parts of West and South Belfast became impassable last Thursday afternoon when torrential rainfall caused widespread flooding. Badly hit were Orchardville Park, […]
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Funeral of tragic teen takes place
By david whelan d.whelan@belfastmediagroup.com THE funeral has taken place of A North Belfast teenager killed in a car accident in the South of the city. Conal Daly (18), a former Edmund Rice College pupil, was killed when the ‘runaround’ Jaguar he was travelling in collided with a Volkswagen Polo being driven by a 74-year-old nun […]
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