REGGAE legends UB40 have been announced as the first headline act at this year’s annual Féile an Phobail. Making their West Belfast debut, the Birmingham musical legends, featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, have sold over 70 million records in a career spanning 37 years and counting. The band will play the Féile big […]
Archive | May, 2015
‘Inexplicable’ loss for Antrim
Antrim manager Kevin Ryan was making no excuses as his side capitulated to a humiliating 17-point loss to Westmeath on Sunday. The match was played in extremely wet conditions at Cusack Park, Mullingar and Antrim corner back Arron Graffin suffered a horror knee injury early on but Waterford native Ryan refused to use either as […]
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Exciting plans for Cliftonville
A planned £4 million revamp of Solitude will see underground car parking and enhanced community facilities built in what will be one of the largest investments ever to be seen in North Belfast. Cliftonville Chairman Gerard Lawlor has said he wants to develop even stronger ties with local people and groups and make the club […]
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Putting neighbourly actions at the art of university ethos
The opening of an art display by University of Ulster students in North Belfast is the beginning of a new chapter that will see the institution engage with local people for years to come. That is the prediction of Professor Paul Seawright who spoke to the North Belfast News last week at the opening of […]
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Sinn Féin lose Fermanagh/South Tyrone
Sinn Féin have lost the iconic Fermanagh/South Tyrone seat to the Ulster Unionists after Thursday’s Westminster election. The seat – which was held by hunger-striker Bobby Sands in 1981 – saw outgoing MP Michelle Gildernew up against single unionist candidate Tom Elliott. The nationalist vote was split, however, with the SDLP also having a candidate […]
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Murdered and buried in France, 30 years on Seamus’s family hope that his remains can be found and brought home
The family of Seamus Ruddy, who was abducted, murdered and secretly buried in France 30 years ago this week, have said that it is difficult to bear the thought of facing another year without being able to bring him home. Seamus was teaching in Paris when he was murdered by the INLA and it is […]
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