A UDA splinter group locked in a power struggle with mainstream members in the Tigers Bay area of North Belfast have been accused of trying to stir up further tension by blaming republicans on their latest attack. On Monday (August 4) a security alert was sparked in the Duncairn Gardens area after a viable pipe […]
Archive | August, 2014
Republicans dragged into loyalist pipe bomb feud
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Master blaster misses the point… again
“That’s terrible,” said Peter Sheehan as he sat in the Bridge Bar and Grill in Glengormley watching the Munster hurling final between Limerick and Cork a few weeks ago. Peter is a Limerick man and a hurling fanatic. He came to north Belfast in the mid-1970s as a bar manager. He played for St Enda’s […]
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Bonfire builders told to expect crackdown
A blitz on internment bonfires is expected to take place in the coming days after the PSNI agreed to back community efforts to put an end to the beacons for anti-social behaviour. On Monday night (August 4) a packed Recy in the New Lodge heard top cop Bobby Singleton vow to ‘robustly’ police the fires […]
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Sinn Féin will fight against ‘Tory cuts’
A West Belfast Sinn Féin councillor has spoken out against welfare cuts and said the DUP must take some of the blame for deprivation in the Protestant community. Jim McVeigh, who is the party’s leader on Belfast City Council, reiterated that the party are “implacably opposed to the Tory cuts agenda in the North” and […]
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Man exposes himself in Milltown Cemetery
A man exposed himself to two children and made lewd gestures to a woman in two separate incidents in a West Belfast cemetery at the weekend. Police are investigating after the man exposed himself to two girls, aged just eight, and made the obscene gestures towards a woman sitting alone at a grave in Milltown […]
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Clonard in Conflict
The maelstrom of the troubles over forty years when examined by historians tends to break Belfast into West and East, North and South. But those broad-brush categories hide the fact that some areas suffered more than others during the conflict. One area whose story is not easily fitted in to wider narratives is Clonard, so […]
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