THE NAME is awful and the artificial flowers and fish tank quite disconcerting, but fundamentally the E3 Belfast MET building at Springvale is a gamechanger for the city. Ducking the squalls this week, I joined Patricia Flanagan to view the spanking new facility on the Springfield Road peaceline. 20 years ago, there were promises – ultimately unfulfilled – to locate a university at this site in a dramatic move which would have turbo-charged the faltering economy of North/West Belfast
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2nd brutal attack at flats of fear as warning is issued
A WEST Belfast councillor has said someone could be killed unless more is done to crack down on the number of violent assaults in Lenadoon. Sinn Féin representative for the area Gerard O’Neill was speaking after a local father-of-two was viciously assaulted outside his Corrib Avenue home in Lenadoon just days after two of his neighbours were attacked by a drunken gang in an outrage we reported on last week.
Officials split as ira tribute is taken down from new wall
THE Workers’ Party in West Belfast has been plunged into turmoil after several senior members in the Lower Falls offered their resignations in a row over a memorial tribute to dead IRA volunteers and party members. The split came after four newly-erected plaques which contained the names of over 90 fallen members of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party were taken down from a new memorial, located beside the Lower Falls Recreation and Social Club on the Grosvenor Road, better known locally as Cyprus Street.
Lock us up and swallow the key!
I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.
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Estate agent abuse ‘not uncommon’
A STUDENT welfare officer says an incident this week where an estate agent barged into a student’s house in South Belfast is not “an isolated one”.
How far have city’s quarters come?
THE ONGOING development of Belfast’s various quarters was the subject of a discussion at the One City conference. Chaired by West Belfast Partnership Board CEO Geraldine McAteer, it involved Paul McErlean of the Cathedral Quarter, Mike Smith of the Titanic Quarter and Eimear Ní Mhathúna from the Gaeltacht Quarter. Mike Smith spoke of the progress […]
