North Belfast is set for a multi-million pound makeover as Belfast City Council reveals a £150m investment package to regenerate the city. Leisure, community and economic projects across the north of the city are set to benefit from the mammoth cash injection over the next three years.
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Sister’s campaigning secures services for ‘suicide’ families
The sister of a North Belfast man who took his own life one year ago last Sunday (January 29) says her campaign to get better treatment for other families hasn’t been in vain.
Anniversary vigil will commemorate massacre dead
A vigil to mark the 39th anniversary of the New Lodge Six massacre when six local people were killed by the British army will be held tomorrow night (Friday).
Disabled man back on track after therapist’s visit
A disabled North Belfast man who hit out the health services for the length of time he has had to wait to see an occupational therapist said he is seeing light at the end of the tunnel after an OT visited his home this week. As reported in last week’s North Belfast News, Cavehill man […]
From the red corner to Red Square for our Dee
WHILE most novice boxers learn their trade and initially trade leather in small hall shows, West Belfast light middleweight Dee ‘Wealthy’ Walsh is proving an exception to that rule.
An unholy Irish alliance between Church and State
After the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, the persecution of Catholics and their clergy in Ireland continued unabated. On July 1, 1681, to the amusement of throngs of baying savages, the decapitated and disembowelled corpse of the Catholic Primate of Ireland, Oliver Plunkett, was dragged through the streets of London strapped to a jail door which was dyed scarlet by his congealing blood.
