TThe bar at Ardoyne Kickhams GAA has has ceased trading with two workers losing their jobs as the club goes into a period of ‘restructuring’ due to a lack of cash. Ardoyne chairman Stephen McVicker said the club was going through restructuring and the bar closure came as part of that. He stressed however that […]
Archive | November, 2014
Ssssh! Too few jobs to mention
THE number of new jobs created in West Belfast by international investors in the past three years is so tiny that Invest NI says it’s unable to release the figures. New stats released by the jobs body show that in East Belfast there were 1,408 new jobs created between 2011 and 2014, 1,020 in South […]
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Birthday Greetings 15th November
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Abuse victim urges others to speak out
BY Evan Short e.short@belfastmediagroup.com An Ardoyne man who gave evidence to the Historical Abuse Inquiry on his rape and beatings while resident in one of the North’s most notorious homes says he is breaking his silence in the hope that other victims will come forward. Gabriel McCormick spent time during the 1960s at Rubane House on […]
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Joby’s sister pulls no punches in support for charity
The sister of a Glengormley man who lost his life when he drowned in the River Lagan three years ago will take to the ring on Saturday night to help raise cash for the team of volunteers that recovered his body. Fiona Murphy’s brother Joby, 20, died after falling into the Lagan after a night […]
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Crime spirals in park/graveyard
INCIDENTS of anti-social behaviour in the Falls Park and City Cemetery have almost doubled in a year. Figures contained in this month’s Belfast City Council minutes show that reports to Council staff of drunken, nuisance behaviour, criminal and environmental damage and street drinking in the Upper Falls electoral area have increased from 172 in 2013 […]
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