A street sign in a West Belfast estate should be removed as it is an insult to the district, say some residents. The sign at the entrance to Twinbrook reads at present ‘Glasvey/Glasbheith Early Intervention Community’. It was erected over a year ago and has since been gathering criticism from locals who say it sends […]
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Daniel tells of his transplant hopes
As National Transplant Awareness Week approaches (July 8-14), a young West Belfast man in need of a double lung transplant has urged more people to sign up to become donors. Daniel Gray has been managing the complications of cystic fibrosis since birth, but in recent years his health has markedly declined. The 24-year-old told the […]
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New era as St Mary’s and CBS merge
The principals of Glen Road schools St Mary’s CBGS and CBS have welcomed the merging of the two schools as an opportunity to maximise the educational prospects of their pupils. Jim Sheerin and Tom Armstrong were speaking after the Edmund Rice Schools Trust revealed its consolidation plan that will see both schools begin to amalgamate […]
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Clouds part to let sun shine on the 70th Novena
THE sun shone on West Belfast as thousands of worshippers turned out for the first session of the 70th Clonard Solemn Novena yesterday (Wednesday) morning. People of all ages and from right across the city and far beyond made their way to the iconic West Belfast church as prayers began at the 6.45am Mass. Clonard […]
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FLAG WARS RAGING AT COUNCIL YARDS
CATHOLIC Belfast City Council workers have hit out over what they say is “blatant inequality” after a tricolour erected at the Kennedy Way cleansing depot was taken down. The Andersonstown News has learned that the tricolour was erected at the cleansing depot at the end of May but that staff were instructed to take it […]
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Close-up Census figures are revealing
New figures released this week from the 2011 Census suggest that the Catholic population of the North is set to grow at the expense of the Protestant population. In December last year the Census was published, revealing that the Protestant population of Northern Ireland now stood at 48 per cent, while the Catholic population was […]
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