óglaigh na héireann have been named as the killers behind the murder of ex-CIRA leader Tommy Crossan. The well-known 43-year-old was gunned down as he sat in the office of a diesel yard on the Springfield Road last month. Sources say the killing was the result of a growing feud between ONH and the Irish […]
Archive | May, 2014
Adams: my four days inside
MY recent detention and interrogation was a serious attempt to bring charges against me. It was conducted by the Retrospective Major Investigation Team of the PSNI, or REMIT, which is based at Seapark, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. I had contacted the PSNI through my solicitor, Seamus Collins, in March to tell them I was available to […]
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Cash or court? Casement residents split
The Andersonstown News has learned that after two meetings held in the course of the past week residents living near Casement Park are divided between pressing ahead with an intended judicial review to block work on the new Casement or accepting a “significant sum” from the developers to let work begin on the new £78 […]
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Duncairn Culture and Arts centre opens its doors
BY Evan Short The £3.5 million Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts was officially opened this week on the Antrim Road with four days of events arranged to herald its arrival. The former Presbyterian Church has been restored to create an arts space for the North Belfast community that has been hailed as one of the […]
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New inquest for Leo ordered
The Attorney General has granted a new inquest into the British Army killing of a West Belfast youth in 1975. Leo Norney, aged 17 and from Turf Lodge, was shot dead by a member of the Black Watch regiment on September 13, 1975. At the time of Leo’s killing, the British Army claimed that they […]
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Hate crime sparked clashes at interfaces
An attack in which a group of Ardoyne teens were beaten by men as they watched a cross community football match is being investigated as a hate crime by the PSNI. The incident at the Hammer Pitches on the Shankill last Friday (April 25) sparked a number of other altercations at interfaces later that evening […]
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