RESIDENTS in a North Belfast street have been left reeling after six shots were fired at an unmarked security vehicle while young children played in the street. The attack at Oceanic Avenue, just off the Antrim Road, happened shortly before 10pm last Thursday (June 26) as children enjoyed the late summer daylight hours. At the […]
Archive | July, 2014
Dissidents fire shots fired as children play in the street
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Biggest ever Irish boxing audience expected as Frampton fight confirmed for Titanic Slipways
Titanic slipways will be the venue for the IBF World Super Bantamweight Title fight between Carl Frampton and Kiko Martinez. The venue was announced on Tuesday at a press conference in the Titanic Centre in Belfast for the September 6 fight. Organisers will hope he re-match between the two rivals will be a repeat of […]
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Dismay over flags outside church
Calls for loyalists to respect Catholic places of worship have been made after flags were put up outside a North Belfast church. St Mary’s Greencastle lies just yards from a bonfire being built and two weeks ago flags were erected at its gates. The move comes shortly after paramilitary flags were erected at Carnmoney cemetery. […]
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Badly in need of democrats
They say the Scottish independence movement is having success on at least one front: they’re rounding up people who haven’t bothered to register to vote or who normally wouldn’t vote. Having found them, they’re hopeful they can persuade them to vote Yes in September. It’s expected that voter turn-out on September 18 will be spectacular […]
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£80,000 of public money up in smoke
CLOSE to £80,000 of ratepayers money has been spent on loyalist bonfires in North Belfast and Newtownabbey in the run up to the Twelfth of July. The huge amount of public money on bonfires on which last year alone effigies and images of nationalist politicians were burnt as well as tricolours and religious symbols, includes […]
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Happy Twelfth?
The Twelfth will soon be upon us again. Festivals in most places make people wish each other Happy Fourth, Happy Christmas, Happy Mother’s Day, but before the Twelfth we say, Hope there’ll be no trouble. Will it ever be a festival with everybody celebrating, rather than a day of doom with half the population leaving […]
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