A respected human rights activist and housing campaigner said this week the Girdwood plans will continue to entrench the North Belfast housing crisis. Inez McCormack, chair of the Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project said with more than 2400 people on the North Belfast housing list, most of whom are Catholic
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High rise mum pleads for new home
A North Belfast couple who have been forced to live out of one bedroom in an eleventh floor tower block flat with their two young children have pleaded with the Housing Executive to find them a home. Nikita Geer and her partner Barry McGuinness have been sharing a flat on the eleventh floor of Cú Chulainn House in the New Lodge with a family member as well as the couple’s eight week old baby son and 14 month old daughter.
Site ‘was never going to solve North issues’
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said the Girdwood development was “never going to solve the inequalities” in North Belfast housing, but it will open the gateway for other housing sites in the area. The Stormont MLA was peaking after criticism that the Girdwood site has been the victim of a DUP and Sinn Féin
Family ‘gutted’ that Joby night has been postponed
The family of a North Belfast man who died after falling into the River Lagan in January have said they are gutted that a fundraising night at the Lansdowne Court Hotel to raise money for a trust fund set up in his memory has had to be postponed after the hotel’s sudden closure.
Relief as hotel owners vow to refund customers
A North Belfast couple who were left devastated after the shock closure of a local hotel eight weeks before they were due to marry at the venue have spoken of their relief after the news they are to get their money back from the owners
Show will go on as Dockers Club lends a Helping Hand
A major charity event which was due to be held in the Lansdowne Hotel will still go ahead thanks to the generosity of the Dockers Club. Helping Hands Romania, which carrys out work for orphanages in remote areas of the Eastern European country,
