Three men and a woman have been charged in relation to a seizure of cannabis worth £330,000 in a North Belfast house. The men, aged 23, 30 and 48 and the woman, aged 38, appeared in Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday (May 3). The accused, who are all foreign nationals, were remanded in custody to […]
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Over £300,000 cannabis haul is discovered in Hughenden house
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Loyalists stoking interface trouble
BY Evan Short e.short@belfastmediagroup.com A DISSIDENT loyalist faction has been accused of stoking interface tensions after it claimed a fight between two youths was part of a sectarian rampage. Politicians, community workers and police have all dismissed the claims that a group of ‘up to 50 armed republican youths’ stormed through Tigers Bay last week […]
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ONH shot ex-CIRA boss
óglaigh na héireann have been named as the killers behind the murder of ex-CIRA leader Tommy Crossan. The well-known 43-year-old was gunned down as he sat in the office of a diesel yard on the Springfield Road last month. Sources say the killing was the result of a growing feud between ONH and the Irish […]
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Cash or court? Casement residents split
The Andersonstown News has learned that after two meetings held in the course of the past week residents living near Casement Park are divided between pressing ahead with an intended judicial review to block work on the new Casement or accepting a “significant sum” from the developers to let work begin on the new £78 […]
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Duncairn Culture and Arts centre opens its doors
BY Evan Short The £3.5 million Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts was officially opened this week on the Antrim Road with four days of events arranged to herald its arrival. The former Presbyterian Church has been restored to create an arts space for the North Belfast community that has been hailed as one of the […]
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New inquest for Leo ordered
The Attorney General has granted a new inquest into the British Army killing of a West Belfast youth in 1975. Leo Norney, aged 17 and from Turf Lodge, was shot dead by a member of the Black Watch regiment on September 13, 1975. At the time of Leo’s killing, the British Army claimed that they […]
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