A serial armed robber from Ardoyne had a “wish to get back to prison” when he robbed a Carrickhill pharmacy last year, a judge has said. Mark Patrick Paul Toal (27), who used to live in Velsheda Park, was jailed for seven years for robbing the Medicare Pharmacy at Carrickhill
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Empty houses to be postered
The Irish Republican Socialist party (IRSP) has vowed to poster every empty house in North Belfast in a bid to highlight the number of homes sitting unoccupied despite housing need in the area being at crisis point.
Dangers of drugs and hazards of social networking
I attended an exhibition in the City Hall last week run by the PSNI. There were a lot of different issues that they wanted to get across to young people, and I certainly had my eyes open by a few things. There was a brilliant production put together by a drama company, Spanner In The Works, which I myself have previously been apart of. The production was about young people going to university and the different problems
Group’s call for new members
A Glengormley group set up just over a year ago in an effort to bring community cohesion to the area are appealing for new members to help their growing community building initiatives. Glengormley Community Group was set up in 2010 by a group of residents concerned at ongoing sectarian clashes and anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhoods.
Planning issues are raised with minister
Newtownabbey Alliance party representatives met with Stormont ministers this week to talk about housing issues in a Glengormley estate. Assembly member for the area David Ford and councillors John Blair and Lynn Frazer met with Environment Minister Alex Attwood and Regional Development Minister Danny
Sex abuse rally to give victims back their voice
A North Belfast woman who co-founded a survivors group after she was sexually abused as a child has organised a rally next week to raise awareness of abuse. Oldpark woman Julieanne Boyle was the first woman to come forward without anonymity in a sexual abuse case 17 years ago.
