THE PUPILS, parents and staff of Holy Cross Boys’ PS were celebrating an ‘outstanding’ achievement this week after a recent school inspection. The Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI), responsible for keeping an eye on school standards, awarded the school the ‘Outstanding’ grade in all key areas in its results published on Monday 13 January. The […]
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Stabbing probed by cops
Detectives in North Belfast are appealing for information after a report of an assault outside residential premises in the Silverstream Road area on Wednesday night (January 15). At around 9.45pm, it was reported that a 21-year-old man was assaulted close to a house in the area by a male. The male is believed to have […]
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Black hacks determined not to lose out
THE black taxi service are doing all in their power to ensure they don’t lose out when the new rapid transit system becomes operational. Belfast Taxi Community Interest Company (BTCIC) Manager Stephen Savage said their main aim was to make sure “we do not lose out”. “We have been kept up to date throughout this […]
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COP ‘SHOULD HAVE HAD THROAT CUT’
By Ciarán Flaherty nbnjournalist@belfastmediagroup.com A comment posted in the name of a Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) member who was part of a delegation which met with Meghan O’Sullivan as part of the Haass talks, has stated it was a ‘pity’ the police officer who was slashed with a Stanley knife last week didn’t have […]
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Crisis meeting held in wake of Falls rampage
An emergency meeting was held this week to discuss a rampage by death-drivers in the lower Falls over the holiday period. A video posted on YouTube shows two cars racing each other on the Falls Road at the Albert Street junction on New Year’s Eve as a number of people stand on the pavement watching. […]
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Haass talks end without agreement
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams says the party’s negotiating team believed there is a basis for a deal in the Haass proposals that broke up without agreement in the early hours of New Year’s Eve. After months of talks and negotiations, the former US diplomat Richard Haass and his co-chair, Professor Meghan O’Sullivan, headed back […]
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