SOUTH BELFAST Councillor Deirdre Hargey has welcomed the announcement of funding for the Market Tunnels Project. The eight disused railway arches, known as the Lanyon Tunnels, connect the Market area with Belfast Central Station, St George’s Market and Lanyon Place and are to be opened up and used as commercial properties and a base for […]
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Market Tunnels dream is closer to reality
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Warning over death driving in Lower Falls
POLICE have asked the public to remain vigilant after an increase in the use of stolen and ‘runaround’ vehicles for death driving in the Lower Falls area of West Belfast in recent days. The warning comes after a stolen car smashed into the garden wall of a house on Clonfadden Street at around 12.35pm on […]
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Kilkenny will be top Cats once again
THE All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final takes centre stage this Sunday at Croke Park as defending champions Kilkenny face Tipperary and we have signed up our GAA tipster Paddy Tierney to review the weekend game. The sides have built up a fierce rivalry in recent times with Tipp famously stopping Kilkenny’s ‘drive for five’ in […]
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Time is now right for a new debate on the PSNI
RESIDENTS’ groups in West Belfast should stop inviting the PSNI to community events until the police deal with the legacy of the past. The call comes after armed PSNI officers attended a family fun day in Lagmore on Saturday. While the PSNI had a stand at the event, a PSNI vehicle was parked at the […]
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Sean to ‘move a mile for muscles’
A YOUNG boy from West Belfast is doing his bit to raise money and awareness for muscular dystrophy. Nine-year-old Sean McKinney from Cullingtree Road is walking to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy UK. Sean was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy just before Christmas 2010. The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group of inherited genetic conditions that […]
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Fire crews still in attendance at West Belfast blaze
MANAGEMENT at a West Belfast recycling plant say they are open for business today after a major blaze broke out at their premises yesterday afternoon. Seven appliances were called to Wastebeater Recycling on Blackstaff Road to deal with a “large quantity of rubbish on fire”. Huge clouds of black smoke hung over West Belfast as […]
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