Irish hit machine Boyzone are set to grace the Falls Park this summer when they perform at Féile an Phobail 2014. The Dublin lads signed on the dotted line this week, securing another massive coup for Féile after they signed the Kaiser Chiefs earlier this year for the same festival. But the crowd will be […]
Boyzone to play West Belfast, no matter what
Robbery and drug crime up in North
Annual statistics published by the PSNI have shown a 3.6 per cent increase in recorded crime across A District, which includes North and West Belfast. In North Belfast the increase in recorded crime is a result of higher numbers of robbery (+15.7 per cent), violence without injury (+22.6 per cent), theft (+5 per cent) and […]
MORA claims victory in Casement vote
The Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents’ Association (MORA) has claimed “a moral victory” after a majority of residents voted in favour of the plan to seek a judicial review of plans to redevelop Casement Park – and to reject financial offers from the contractor. As we reported last week, residents’ votes on two options were to […]
DUP actions on housing sparks huge row at Stormont
A report that claims to lay bare the extent to which the DUP is getting involved in lobbying for housing changes in North Belfast sparked a huge row in Stormont this week, with nationalist parties uniting to accuse the party of engaging in ‘gerrymandering’. An extensive report released on investigative journalism website ‘The Detail’ published […]
‘Freelance’ ONH group behind pub firebombing
A ‘freelance’ ONH group, working separately from the west Belfast leadership, was behind the burning of an Oldpark bar in an attempt to curry favour locally. The North Belfast gang, who are only loosely affiliated with the ONH leadership in the west of the city, torched The Corner House bar in April. And the North […]
Taoiseach to visit ‘Murph
By Anthony Neeson a.neeson@belfastmediagroup.com Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to travel to West Belfast to meet the families of the 11 innocents who were killed by the Parachute Regiment over three days in August 1971 in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. Enda Kenny made the commitment during his response to a question in the […]