A North Belfast interface barrier that has been in place for over 20 years is to open for the first time next week. The barrier at Newington Street was put in place soon after the death of Terry McDaid in 1988. The father-of-two was shot dead in May of that year by loyalist gunmen as he sat with his mother, father, wife and two daughters.
Archive | February, 2012
Barrier to reopen 24 years afer murder
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Minister will meet with St Joe’s group
The Environment Minister says he will meet with a local community group after they hit out at being overlooked for funding to refurbish a listed building in their area. Alex Attwood says he is will meet with Sailortown Regeneration Group (SRG) to discuss their concerns about the disused St Joseph’s Church.
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Controversy over inaccurate water test certificates
The spa in the main fitness suite at the Valley Leisure Centre has been closed as a precautionary measure while water safety tests are carried out, Newtownabbey Borough Council said this week. The move comes amidst controversy over inaccurate laboratory certificates issued to the Council by a firm contracted to test the water at the leisure centre for the potentially deadly bacteria which cause legionnaires disease.
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Belfast Lions’ Message in a Bottle
A South Belfast fundraising organisation is up and roaring again, with a special information evening being held tonight (Wednesday) to attract more members.
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Aquinas star earns call up
James MacSorley, a Year 13 pupil at Aquinas Grammar School, was recently called into the Great Britain B team for the International Wheelchair Basketball Challenge, which took place at the Antrim Forum from 7-9 February.
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Good golly Miss Molly! Local girl’s top award
ONE of South Belfast’s top pupils will soon be heading to the famous dreaming spires of Oxford University – but not before collecting an award for her amazing charity work, which has taken her to India and back.
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