THE eighth annual Dessie Armstrong Cup took place on December 27 and this year it was Cromac Albion that claimed the trophy thanks to a penalty shootout victory over Rosario.
South Belfast netballers honoured
The year 2011 was a memorable one for the South Belfast pair of Oonagh McCullough and Fionnuala Toner and the Northern Ireland netball team, who reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time ever, in Singapore in July.
Design for life
Wesley Farren is the principal architect at Bee Architecture in Ballynafeigh, a small practice which specialises in home design and work on listed buildings. He tells us how he wants to visit the other side of the world and his desire to knock down the newest addition to one of the local area’s most famous sites.
Bradley plotting to Erne win on the road in Canavan’s Fermanagh managerial bow
THE New Year is a time that offers fresh hope and a fresh start. That is certainly the objective for Antrim football manager Liam Bradley who is hoping to begin the 2012 inter-county campaign with a bang when his Saffron squad travel to Enniskillen to face Fermanagh in the first of three Section A games in the Dr McKenna Cup.
Attempted armed robbery spoils ‘convivial New Year’
AN attempted robbery in the early hours of the New Year spoiled what was an otherwise “convivial” atmosphere in the Ormeau area, a local community representative has said.
Area ‘forgotten’ in Malone design guide
A South Belfast residents’ group has called on a major design guide for a local conservation area to be changed in order to include their community, which they claim has been “forgotten about”.