NOMINATIONS are still open for The Outstanding Contribution to the Irish Language Award in this year’s Aisling Awards. This award celebrates the vibrancy and uniqueness which the Irish language brings to the city of Belfast, the award will honour an organisation or person who works tirelessly to pioneer the language. This year’s Aisling Awards will […]
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The community group that took on a giant
MONEY breeds power, or so the idiom goes, but five years ago when plans were revealed for a quarter-billion pound waste incinerator in Glengormley, it sparked a grassroots community campaign that would go on to take on big capital and even the government. The NoArc21 campaign started when a small group of concerned residents called […]
Man admits preventing burial of elderly neighbour
A 24-year-old man has admitted preventing the burial of an elderly neighbour whose body lay undiscovered in her West Belfast home for over two years. Robert Sharkey of Grays Hill in Bangor appeared at at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday and admitted all but one charge levelled against him. The body of 68-year-old Marie Conlon […]