OVER a year after work halted on badly-needed new social homes on the Glen Road after the collapse of the contractor, the ghost estate still stands desolate. Work on 92 homes adjacent to the Glen Road Travellers site at the foot of the Black Mountain was halted in July 2016 after the company contracted […]
Archive | August, 2017
Local ghost estate still lies empty a year after work halted
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McComb determined to add to his medal collection in Hamburg
THE decision to stay with the amateur code was one Sean McComb made at the start of this year with the World Championships in mind. The Holy Trinity man now gets his opportunity to prove he is one of the top light-welterweights on the planet in Hamburg when he embarks upon his third World Championships […]
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Irvine confident he can rule the flyweight Roost
REACHING the medal podium is the bottom line for Brendan Irvine as the West Belfast man prepares for the start of the World Elite Championships in Hamburg this week. The St Paul’s flyweight came back from the European Championships with bronze after losing out to England’s Niall Farrell at the semi-final stage and anything less […]
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St Enda’s face Paddies with final return in sight
HAVING overcome St Gall’s in their rearranged quarter-final at Rossa Park last night (Wednesday), Sarsfield’s turn their attention to Saturday evening and a meeting with St Enda’s for a place in this year’s Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship final. The Paddies were 0-18 to 1-10 winners over their local rivals in front a big crowd at […]
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Family’s gift of love to South Belfast park users
A BELFAST family who lost a loved one to heart attack at a sporting event have dug deep to help others by donating £6,000 to place defibrillators in nine local parks. Members of the Murphy family recently unveiled of one of the defibrillators in their local South Belfast park, Cherryvale. They also presented a £6,000 […]
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Council ‘breaks housing pledge’
SOUTH BELFAST Councillor Deirdre Hargey has accused Belfast City Council of breaking a pledge to allow social homes to be built on the Gasworks site at Ormeau. Councillor Hargey was speaking following a vote by the Planning Committee of Belfast City Council to make land earmarked for social housing on the Gasworks site available for […]
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