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Man forced from his home

A NEW Lodge man has been forced out of his home after his house was attacked on Monday night. The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, is now living in a hostel after breeze blocks were thrown through the windows of the house on the New Lodge Road. Speaking to the North Belfast News, the […]
The great outdoors at a local nursery school

AIDAN Crean fully understands young people’s concern for nature and the future of our planet – in fact the west Belfast environmental supremo ‘got it’ well before anyone else did. When he was young and with the Troubles raging all around, nature and the environment weren’t high on many people’s list of priorities. But Aidan […]
Paul Thompson murder: inquest date edges closer

THE inquest into the controversial death of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson is expected to get under way next year. Dermott Hill Road man Paul (25) was shot dead by the UDA in a car in Springfield Park on April 27, 1994. A fence separating Springfield Park and the loyalist Springmartin estate had been breached shortly before […]
Fearless Woman book set to be launched in the Connolly Centre

A BOOK on the life and times of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington will be launched tonight, Thursday, in the James Connolly Visitor Centre on the Falls Road. Fearless Woman sees Margaret Ward revisit the complex and fascinating life of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, a pivotal figure in feminist, labour and nationalist movements in Ireland in the twentieth […]