SINN Féin’s Jennifer McCann is to step down from her role as a West Belfast MLA, the Andersonstown News has learned. Ms McCann, a political stalwart in the Colin area, will step down from her role in the Assembly over the coming weeks in order to focus on a new position assisting Health Minister Michelle […]
Archive | November, 2016
Tears behind the laughter at the MAC
PATRICIA Gormley is a woman of many talents. At the age of 40 and after raising her four children she went to Queen’s University and studied English Literature and Politics alongside two of her daughters. She taught English to mature students, then went into working with the elderly and that’s where she discovered her talent […]
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Key funders visit Market Tunnels
A DELEGATION of top politicians has been shown plans for the ambitious new Market Tunnels and taken on a tour of the eagerly anticipaetd regeneration project. After 70 years of dereliction, the eight disused railway tunnels known as the Lanyon Tunnels,that run below East Bridge Street in Belfast will be developed to develop jobs and […]
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Get ready to Deck the Falls this Christmas
AFTER the phenomenal success of the sell-out run of ’Em Two Balloons last Christmas, West Belfast’s dynamic comic duo are back to ‘Deck the Falls’. In a brief break from rehearsals, actors Ciarán Nolan and Gerard Jordan told Daily Belfast that they’ve a wealth of plans, scams and skullduggery up their sleeves to get audiences […]
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Funeral of West Belfast murder victim James Hughes takes place
MOURNERS who gathered under grey winter skies at St Peter’s Cathedral for the Requiem Mass of 62-year-old murder victim Jim Hughes heard that “his death must not have been in vain”. Mr Hughes was found dead in his 14th floor Divis Tower flat in West Belfast by the PSNI after the alarm was raised by […]
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In a Lebanon camp, Palestinans wait and hope
BONE man Eddie Whyte is an elected national officer in Fagforbundet, Norway’s largest trade union, and is active on Palestinian and human rights issues. He’s just back from a trip to meet some refugees. “Have been to Nablus yet?” she asked. “I myself am from there but I have never been. One day, I will […]
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