QUESTIONS have been raised as to where a trilingual sign removed from the front of the Department for Regional Development’s city centre headquarters has gone. The empty space at the DRD’s Clarence House offices was noticed this week by Belfast Sinn Féin Councillor and Belfast Media Group MD Máirtín ó Muilleoir. It’s now emerged that […]
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DEMENTIA OAP DEATH THREAT
A West Belfast man caring for his 87-year-old mother, who suffers from dementia, has received a chilling death threat. Cavendish Street man Gerard O’Neill was left deeply shocked after sinister placards were placed on his vehicle on Monday morning, warning him to “look under your car”. Gerard’s car was scratched by the heartless thugs and […]
Jobs will come with new Casement redevelopment
The contractors who will build the new Casement Park in Andersonstown will be obliged to give work to the long-term unemployed. Ulster GAA have made the precondition that any building firm bidding to oversee the biggest single capital project ever undertaken in this part of the city must employ those who have been out of […]
Tourists set to get a room at the Mill
PLANS are under way to transform the third floor of the Conway Mill to incorporate four-star guest accommodation. Architectural drawings have already been drawn up to make way for up to 20 en-suite bedrooms in the iconic Mill, which, as one of the directors Joe Quinn explained, is “right in the middle of a prime […]
‘I’ve cried all my tears. I have to be strong now…’
THE young mother of eight-year-old Joseph McDermott, who remains in intensive care after being struck by a car on the Grosvenor Road, says she’s “trying to be positive for him” as he fights to regain consciousness. Speaking from the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Joseph’s mum Joanne said her family have joined her in […]
IT’S GAME ON!
DRAMATIC designs for the Casement Park redevelopment were unveiled at Belfast City Hall on Wednesday evening, as the Ulster Council began its second phase of public consultation on the new stadium. The artist’s impressions reveal for the first time the scale and ambition of the new stadium, which is due to be completed by June […]
