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Archive | May, 2017

Burnett planning to be Belfast’s latest world champ

BELFAST fight fans will be hoping to salute their latest world champion on June 10 when Ryan Burnett challenges Lee Haskins for the IBF bantamweight title at the SSE (formerly Odyssey) Arena. The pair came together earlier yesterday (Wednesday) at the Europa Hotel for a press conference to officially announce the showdown between experienced champion […]

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Barney Roy to upset Guineas favourite Churchill

• Weekend Racing IT was winners galore last week for the PG as we hit six winners in last week’s Andersonstown News and North Belfast Newa and countless winners on our Facebook and Twitter social media outlets where we delivered a 72/1 winning trixie on Thursday night along with 20/1, 19/1 and 9/1 doubles on Friday […]

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Exhibition about Belfast Celtic man opens at Stormont

AN exhibition celebrating the legacy of Patrick O’Connell, the Irishman who saved FC Barcelona from bankruptcy, was opened at Stormont on Tuesday. His story is being told by the Patrick O’Connell Memorial Fund at the Long Hall Gallery, where the exhibition was formally opened by West Belfast MLA Fra McCann. Although born in Dublin, Patrick began […]

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Parents to act as night security at targeted school

PARENTS and residents have offered to stay overnight at a West Belfast primary school to ensure the premises are protected from mindless thugs who have targeted it for the third time in four nights. Ballymurphy’s Bunscoil an tSléibhe Dhuibh has faced a crippling series of break-ins since last Saturday night with Principal Pilib Mistéil saying he […]

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Mark goes on the trail on mammoth fundraiser

A YOUNG father from Belfast is taking on the challenge of a lifetime in a bid to raise over £4,000 for local cancer charity, a second time around. After trekking the Great Wall of China in aid Cancer Fund for Children (CFC) in 2013, Mark Mead is lacing up his hiking boots once again to […]

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Red tape stalls improvements

A SOUTH Belfast businessman has lambasted restrictive City Hall regulations on the restoration of listed buildings. Anthony Kieran, founder and director of UsedcarsNI.com, purchased a property in South Belfast’s Upper Crescent area in 2015 with a view to making it into his company’s new office. However since then Mr Kieran says he has faced nothing […]

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