West Belfast has the highest rate of child poverty in the whole of the north, according to shock figures in a new ‘deprivation map’. The Campaign to End Child Poverty, an umbrella group made up of 150 organisations including children’s charities and child welfare organisations, have released stats that show more than 20 per cent […]
Archive | October, 2014
Further disruption to local community
By david whelan d.whelan@belfastmediagroup.com A LEADING PSNI officer has said that he does not believe the latest spike in security incidents, which have caused serious disruption in nationalist areas of North Belfast, is an upscaling of dissident republican activity but warned that it is ‘a stark reminder of the situation’. Chief Superindent Nigel Grimshaw, was […]
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Why no charges over son’s brutal murder?
THE mother of a man murdered in cold blood and dumped in a North Belfast park has made an emotional appeal for information on his one-year anniversary. Rosaleen Kearney spoke publicly for the first time since her son Kevin’s brutal murder as family and friends gathered at the spot where his body was found on […]
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From Hardinge to Street Park Lodge
The Christian Brothers were a great organisation for planning ahead. In the late 1950s they looked at the growth of the Catholic population in Belfast. They were aware that the Redemptorist Order had purchased Ben Eadan, the large estate of Major Addley, and had built St Gerard’s church, with the official opening by Dr Mageean, […]
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Mother and daughter reunion
In a local version of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’, an English family has made an emotional pilgrimage to the grave of their grandmother in the City Cemetery. Margaret Douglas Steven-son, Valerie Plesnorlviczh, James Douglas and his wife Margaret Douglas made the trip from Nottingham this week. The Douglases lost their mother, Kathleen Lennox […]
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Hip-happy Daniel is hoping to enjoy further success
Local hip hop artist Daniel Juma is set to make waves at the regional final of the Open Mic UK talent competition. Daniel, who only began rapping a year ago, entered the competition after hearing about it from his girlfriend. “After a few live shows I was hungry to keep performing,” he told the Andersonstown […]
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