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Archive | August, 2018

Ballynafeigh centre is hit hard by lift defect

A LOCAL development association urgently need to raise thousands of pounds to repair a lift at their newly renovated building to enable access to their user groups including the elderly, disabled and mums with prams. Residents who avail of the services at the Ballynafeigh Community Development Association (BCDA) currently can’t access programmes held on the […]

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Pic of the Day, Monday August 27

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Priest was cut down going to aid of others

We continue to tell the stories of the victims and the families of the Ballymurphy Massacre Father Hugh Mullan was a curate at Corpus Christi Church. The Portaferry man was shot dead as he went to the aid of his neighbour Bobby Clarke during the Ballymurphy Massacre. Before entering a field on August 9 in […]

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Drugs supply busted

THE FATHER of a Belfast teen whose son was threatened and forced to store a large quantity of drugs for a local criminal gang has spoken to the Andersonstown News about his family’s ordeal. We’ve learned that several young people from the lower Falls/Divis/Grosvenor area have also been threatened by the same drugs gang and […]

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Man arrested after Oldpark drugs find

A 32-year-old man is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates’ Court today after a major drugs find in North Belfast on Thursday. Detectives from the PSNI’s Organised Crime Branch, investigating the supply of illegal drugs in the North seized cannabis plants along with a large quantity of suspected benzocaine and other drugs paraphernalia during three […]

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Tura to dance in front of the Pope

A BELFAST GAEILGEOIR is ‘excited’ and ‘honoured’ to be performing at the World Meetings of Families this weekend at Croke Park, where he will meet Pope Francis. Cuthbert ‘Tura’ Arutura will dance at the opening ceremony on Saturday evening. The invite came about after he spoke about his passion for Ireland in a video interview […]

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