CONDEMNATION has been swift after the hijacking of a local woman’s car in Poleglass. On Saturday evening, a female driver was pulled out of her car on the Brians Well Road by three masked men, one of them thought to be armed, as she delivered medicine to her son. The car was later found burnt […]
Woman dragged from car in hijack horror
Official IRA say they will ‘retaliate’
The Official IRA are threatening to “retaliate” against individuals who they claim are using the organisation’s name. The Andersonstown News has learned that men claiming to represent the Official IRA have entered several homes in West and North Belfast in recent weeks, confronting the occupants and issuing threats against them. One man was told to […]
Row over local bonfire tyres
Belfast City Council has threatened to withhold cash for a West Belfast Twelfth bonfire after builders flouted funding terms by filling it with tyres. The bonfire, which is on land between Conway Street and North Howard Street just on the loyalist side of the Falls-Shankill peace wall, is a hollow edifice of wooden pallets which, […]
Relief as court order limits MORA’s costs
The Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents’ Association (MORA) has welcomed the granting of a court order that has removed the threat of crippling legal bills from over their head. A Protective Cost Order was granted by Judge Seamus Treacy in the High Court on Tuesday, which means that MORA can proceed with its judicial review of […]
Increase in Glengormley flags ‘causing concern’
An increase in the number and size of flags being erected in Glengormley ahead of the marching season is causing unease amongst residents, a local councillor has said. Sinn Féin’s Gerry O’Reilly said their office had been contacted a number of times by concerned residents who say they are seeing flags being put up in […]
‘We want our speed ramps back’
Residents of Ladybrook Park say an accident is waiting happen after ramps were removed for roadworks over two months ago and not replaced. A resident said cars, motorbikes and even buses are racing up and down the road now there are no traffic control measures to slow drivers down. “I have lived here 53 years,” […]