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Planners pledge Casement Park recommendation before September, says West Belfast MP Paul Maskey

Sinn Féin West Belfast MP Paul Maskey has welcomed a commitment by the Planning Service to make a recommendation on the planning application for Casement Park to the Minister for Infrastructure by the end of summer following a meeting between Sinn Féin and the planners. He was speaking after leading a delegation today to meet […]

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Bring back Ulster Hurling championship say Antrim GAA reps

THE Ulster Hurling Championship should be reinstated according to Antrim captain Conor McCann and county chairman Ciarán McCavana. The provincial Championship was discontinued for a three-year period from 2018 with Ulster GAA secretary Brian McAvoy citing poor attendances as the main reason at the time with the competition struggling for prominence when sandwiched between the […]

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City’s historic markets due to reopen

Traders at Smithfield and St George’s Market are getting ready to welcome their customers back with Belfast City Council confirming dates for the reopening of the two popular city centre markets. Smithfield Market will be open from Monday 22 June, and the award-winning St George’s Market will reopen its doors on Friday 3 July. As […]

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It’s all change as childcare prepares to return

On Thursday the Stormont Executive announced that all parents will now be able to avail of childcare from July 1. Aisling Daycare proprietors Bronagh McAllister and Una Dougherty closed their doors 14 weeks ago on March 24. Now they and their team are looking forward to welcoming parents and their children back to their award […]

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Special nine days begins at Clonard Novena

THE countdown and the wait is officially over as the annual Clonard Solemn Novena got underway today, Friday. As we reported last week, the event, which attracts 15,000 worshippers to Clonard’s historic monastery and gardens each day during nine days in June, will be celebrated in a very different way this year. Due to the […]

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50 Years On, we remember Antrim hurler who was first victim of Falls Curfew

Patrick (Paddy) Elliman was the oldest of the four people who were killed during the Falls Curfew in July 1970. The 62-year-old father of four was fatally wounded after being shot in the head by soldiers near his Marchioness Street home. At around 11pm on the 3rd July the district was quiet and Patrick, dressed […]

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