THE All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final takes centre stage this Sunday at Croke Park as defending champions Kilkenny face Tipperary and we have signed up our GAA tipster Paddy Tierney to review the weekend game. The sides have built up a fierce rivalry in recent times with Tipp famously stopping Kilkenny’s ‘drive for five’ in […]
Archive | September, 2016
Time is now right for a new debate on the PSNI
RESIDENTS’ groups in West Belfast should stop inviting the PSNI to community events until the police deal with the legacy of the past. The call comes after armed PSNI officers attended a family fun day in Lagmore on Saturday. While the PSNI had a stand at the event, a PSNI vehicle was parked at the […]
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Drugs campaign moves to next phase
A community drugs campaign launched last month in the Waterworks with a mass rally is to campaign for a dedicated treatment centre for addicts. At a meeting held last week it was agreed that a petition would be started to make the authorities confront the growing problem in North Belfast. Over the summer heroin dealers […]
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Battered pensioner had met his attacker
AN Ardoyne pensioner repeatedly punched in the head during a robbery at his home said he spoke to his attacker in recent months. Thomas Crawford was punched around the head by the man who broke into his Ladbrook Drive home in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The 71-year-old told the North Belfast News that […]
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Rossa aiming to Close the gap on Red Hands
LAST year’s county finalists, Lámh Dhearg will bid to repeat the 2015 success over O’Donovan Rossa when the sides met in the SFC quarter-final at Corrigan Park on Saturday (4pm). The Hannahstown side claimed a narrow one-point win at the semi-final stage of last year’s campaign before losing out to Cargin in the decider. This […]
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New beginnings for Cacace in Wigan this weekend
THE new boxing ‘season’ begins this weekend after the summer break and it is a case of new beginnings for the Celtic super-featherweight champion, Anthony Cacace (13-0, 6KOs) who returns after almost a year out. The 27 year-old was last in action when stopping Ronnie Clark for the belt in October last year, but after […]
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