All-Ireland Club Senior Hurling Championship Final Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 2-25 Ruairi Og, Cushendall 2-14 CUSHENDALL suffered a heartbreaking 11-point defeat at the hands of Na Piarsaigh at Croke Park yesterday as their dreams of All-Ireland glory were shattered by the rampant Limerick side. The outcome was known long before Cork referee Diarmuid Kirwan blew his […]
Archive | March, 2016
Cushendall’s All-Ireland dreams crushed in Croke
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Residents on patrol
Residents of a small North Belfast estate have taken to patrolling the area after yet another break-in that saw thieves get away with valuable family heirlooms. Just three weeks after boxing coach Eanes Keenan lost precious keepsakes in a burglary, neighbour Marian McAleenan Frame is the latest resident to lose cash and jewellery in a […]
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Irish ace donates £5,000 to help Dáire see Everton
REPUBLIC of Ireland and Everton star Seamus Coleman has donated £5,000 to help make a brave West Belfast boy’s dream of meeting his football heroes come true. Dáire Flanagan from Turf Lodge was born with a rare genetic condition known as Apert Syndrome. Doctors said he wouldn’t survive 48 hours, but he is now a […]
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Excitement builds ahead of journey to poor regions
Young people attending a North Belfast-based youth club have told the North Belfast News about their plans to travel to India and South Africa this month to carry out aid work in some of the most impoverished corners of the world. The young people are from both sides of the community and meet regularly in […]
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‘Hannah just wants to get to her school’
THE PARENTS of a disabled South Belfast schoolgirl whose attendance record has plummeted thanks to frequently cancelled buses have appealed to education bosses to put on a proper service. 12-year-old Hannah Black, who has spina bifida and attends Fleming Fulton in the Upper Malone area, says she “just wants to go to school”. Hannah and […]
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Now Your Ma gets to have her say on The Troubles too
A CROSS-COMMUNITY bus run to Donegal, a newly formed Protestant flute band, a serial ‘fleg’ protestor and the long-awaited return of Fireball are just some of the delights audiences can expect to meet in The History of the Peace (Accordin’ to My Ma). Set 14 years after the curtain first came down on the highly […]
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