EDDIE Doherty was born on February 23, 1941 to Edward and Elizabeth Doherty. He was the fourth of six children. As a young boy Eddie attended St Paul’s Primary School in Cavendish Street off the Falls Road. When Eddie left school he started working for the Corporation on the bins. He stayed there until 1968 […]
Archive | August, 2018
Eddie shot in the back as he talked to a friend
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Pic of the Day, Monday August 13
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Anti-internment parade given weekend go-ahead
The Parades Commission has granted permission for an anti-internment march to take place in Belfast city centre. Organised by the Anti-Internment League, the National March Against Internment will start at Writers’ Square at 1pm on Saturday (August 11) before heading to City Hall. Organisers said the march is to “oppose the continued use of internment […]
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Home is where the heart is for artist Hugh
HIS paintings hang in the homes of important American CEOs and major international collectors but West Belfast born and bred artist Hugh O’Neill is “beginning a journey” now that will see his work on home turf. “We lived along the Pound Loney, in Scotch Street, which was dismantled when the Divis Flats were built,” said […]
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Pic of the Day, Friday August 10
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The year of a bonfire breakthrough?
WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has commended the hard work and efforts of statutory agencies and his own Belfast City Council party team in working to remove anti-internment bonfire materials ahead of August 8/9. Belfast City Council officials were busy removing pallets and other debris at sites across West Belfast in the run-up to the […]
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