A WEST Belfast man is in a stable condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital after he was shot twice in the chest on Monday night. 37-year-old father-of-three Noel Donnelly had been staying in his sister’s Oranmore Street home in the Clonard area for the previous fortnight. Masked gunmen burst into the house at around 10pm […]
Victim of shooting was playing games with a nephew (8)
Why I’m standing down as local MLA
She is West Belfast’s longest serving Assembly member, at the time of her election one of the youngest MLAs in Stormont and the first woman chief whip of any of the north’s major political parties. But Sue Ramsey’s abiding memory of her first day at Stormont is showing around two elderly West Belfast republican women […]
Homecoming and Belfast One City Conference: The sessions
‘Ring the Bells which still can Ring: Building a Capital of Culture’ Gerry Ó hEara (Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Derry) “In Derry we have a community that has been through 25-30 years of the most vicious internal conflict. There is a sense that we are recovering from collective post traumatic […]
Local woman’s support for far-right EDL group
A FORMER North Belfast Catholic schoolgirl who travels to England to take part in mass anti-Muslim marches organised by the extreme right wing group the English Defence League (EDL) has been exposed by her former fiancé. Margaret Brophy, who attended Little Flower Girls’ school and who lives in the Cliftonville area, regularly travels to England […]
Open warfare in Tigers Bay
Two families have been forced to leave their homes in the Tigers Bay area after a week of serious trouble which has seen opposing gangs of masked men attacking vehicles and property in a battle to control the area. On Monday night (September 29) a gang of up to 30 masked men armed with cudgels, […]
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS 11TH OCTOBER 2014
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