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Archive | May, 2019
Gibson’s Gourmet Café and Takeaway: A bright future for a local culinary hub
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Gibson’s Gourmet Café WITH Belfast’s ever-growing food service industry I am always keen to try new places that seem to be opening their doors on near constant basis. Given my curiosity for the new and novel, there are few local eateries that I regularly return to. However, in the case of the newly […]
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Butcher and bookie: Sadness as ‘Tucker’ Straney passes away
WARM tributes have been paid to well-known West Belfast businessman Tom ‘Tucker’ Straney who passed away aged 71 on Monday. Born June 15 1947, father to five children and stepfather to two, the grandfather and great grandfather opened his popular A’town Meats in 1979. Tom’s eldest son Gerald told the Andersonstown News how his father […]
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Windsor Tennis Club to host seventh Junior ITF Tournament
TENNIS Ireland and Ulster Branch Tennis Ireland (UBTI) have announced details of the Belfast City Junior International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament hosted by Windsor Lawn Tennis Club, Belfast, from June 22-28. This prestigious tournament is part of the Pinta ITF Series, with the title sponsors providing prizes for the top Irish male and female singles […]
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Fitzpatrick and Webb ready for war
IT is a fight that has captured the imagination locally as lightweight rivals, Joe Fitzpatrick and Stephen Webb tangle at The Devenish on Saturday night in the latest installment of Boxing Ireland Promotions’ ‘Celtic Clash’ series. This is a meeting between Divis and St James’, with the amateur boxing rivalry of Immaculata and Holy Trinity […]
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Antrim face tough challenge to overcome Red Hands
Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final Antrim v Tyrone (Saturday, 6pm Athletic Grounds, Live on BBC2) IF ever Antrim needed a timely boost ahead of their daunting clash against Tyrone, then Cavan provided it against Monaghan last Saturday at Kingspan Breffni Park. Monaghan were odds on favourites to progress, but Mickey Graham’s men prepared for an […]
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