EirGrid Ulster U20 Football Championship quarter-final Antrim v Derry (Saturday, 2pm, Dunsilly) ANTRIM U20 manager Hugh McGettigan feels the grade would be better served by a return to the old U21 format as the Saffrons prepare for their quarter-final clash with Derry at Dunsilly on Saturday. The revised 2020 calendar has already come in for […]
Antrim boss McGettigan bemoans U20 Football Championship format
Quinn leads Star to win as Dunkin’ Delaney goes viral
BELFAST Star got back to winning ways at the weekend, but now head to Dublin to face UCD Marian knowing that probably only a victory will keep their Super League title hopes alive. Star currently trail league leaders Tralee by three points as the league goes into its final five games and they will be […]
Family’s fitting tribute to Danielle
THE family of a Glengormley woman who died just weeks before she was due to begin a new life-extending cystic fibrosis drug have raised over £1,500 in her memory. Danielle McFall (30) died at Antrim Area Hospital in October after a week in intensive care. She was diagnosed with the disease aged just six weeks […]
100 new jobs created in new Andersonstown Leisure Centre
100 new jobs will be created with the opening of the new £25 million Andersonstown Leisure Centre in April. Andersonstown will be the next leisure centre to re-open as part of Belfast City Council’s £105 million leisure transformation programme. It follows the recent openings of the new Brook and Lisnasharragh Leisure Centres. GLL, the social […]
Safety measures at ‘dangerous bend’
A LOCAL political representative has welcomed plans from the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) to take safety measures at a “dangerous bend” on Dunmurry Lane. Sinn Féin Coucillor Geraldine McAteer said the particular area had been the scene of a number of crashes and “near misses”. “The DfI has informed me that they will introduce bend […]
City Hall apology to family over grave letter
BELFAST City Council has had to apologise after sending a letter to a deceased woman directing her to carry out repairs to her own headstone. The West Belfast woman was buried beside her husband in Belfast City Cemetery in 2011. However, a letter’s been sent to the family home asking her to “contact a monumental […]