A North Belfast woman has organised a tribute night to Wee Oscar Knox to commemorate the tot and raise much needed cash for the Children’s Hospice. Serpentine woman Nichola Perry said the shop in which she works on the Falls always had a nominated charity and over the last two years that had been the […]
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Wee Oscar to be honoured at starstudded tribute night
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Glasvey pleads for relief amidst nightly scenes of grim disorder
RESIDENTS of a West Belfast street say they are a “under siege” from crowds of teenagers running amok during the summer holidays. Worried locals told the Andersonstown News that crowds of up to 150 youths are gathering from early afternoon until late at night to drink, take drugs and even have sex on land at […]
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Female Reds fan hospitalised after Neo Nazi attack
BY Evan Short e.short@belfastmediagroup.com Cliftonville fans in Hungary this week for their team’s Champions League tie have spoken of their shock at a Neo Nazi attack that left one female supporter needing stitches after she was hit in the face by a bottle. A 40 strong mob set upon travelling Cliftonville supporters ahead of the North […]
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Rapid transit concerns only partly dealt with by DRD, claims Attwood
COUNCILLOR Tim Attwood says the Department for Regional Development (DRD) have only “partly” responded to concerns of local residents in relation to the Belfast Rapid Transit (BRT) project – and that other outstanding issues require further discussion. Residents from Stewartstown, Hillhead, Doon Road, Suffolk Parade and Blacks Road raised a number of issues of concern […]
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Unionism’s ‘blind side’ to victims of loyalists
A WOMAN whose father suffered a horrific death at the hands of the Shankill Butchers has accused unionism and the Orange Order of having a ‘blind side’ to victims of loyalism after images emerged of a former member of the gang stewarding a parade past a North Belfast church. Pictures of Eddie McIlwaine outside St […]
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Twelfth weekend stabbing and hate crimes investigated
A 19-year-old from Ligoniel was treated for a stab wound to his back on Saturday in the most serious of a number of crimes reported over the twelfth weekend. The teenager was rushed to hospital after he was attacked on the Mountainhill Road following an incident in the early hours of Saturday (July 12). The […]
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