CONSTRUCTION work at the Lenadoon play park has come to a halt due to ongoing vandalism. The contractor who is carrying out the final phase of the work has refused to come back onsite until the anti-social behaviour that has been plaguing the site ceases.
Archive | May, 2012
Enda breakthrough
THE Ballymurphy Massacre families have welcomed news that Taoiseach Enda Kenny has agreed to meet them to discuss the families’ ongoing campaign calling for a full independent international investigation of the 1971 atrocity.
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My marathon highs and lows
HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).
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Anniversary marked at Connolly home
The 96th anniversary of Irish revolutionary James Connolly’s execution will be commemorated at an event at his former Falls Road home this weekend. On Saturday, members of the James Connolly Society will gather at the house where the 1916 patriot lived during his stay in Belfast.
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Michael Collins’ gun put on show
A REVOLVER belonging to legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins is to be put on display in a local club. Pat McArdle of the Roddy McCorley Society on the Glen Road said securing Michael Collins’ Webley for display was “quite a coup” for the club’s private museum which is already a magnet for lovers of Irish history from across Ireland and beyond.
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Doubts over Owenvale
A WEST Belfast residential care home faces de-registration following concerns raised about its standard of care. The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) said it had identified a number of concerns about the St John of God Association’s running of Owenvale Court Residential Care Home on the Springfield Road, which provides care to elderly patients.
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