The daughter of a woman killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre has spoken of her fresh heartache with news her mother lay alone slowly dying for up to six hours when medical treatment could have saved her life. Mother of eight children Joan Connolly was shot by the British army on August 9, 1971 after leaving […]
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Justice came late for scapegoat airman
The murder of Patricia Curran (19) in November 1952 sent shockwaves all over Ireland and beyond. By the end of the year the RUC were being criticised for lack of progress in finding the killer and by this time had enlisted the help of Scotland Yard who sent over Superintendent John Capstick – known as […]
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Joy and sadness as Brendan is identified
HUMAN remains found in County Meath at the start of October were those of West Belfast man and one of the IRA’s ‘Disappeared’ victims, Brendan Megraw, it was confirmed this week. Brendan’s remains were found in a drainage ditch on Oristown Bog, near Kells, by contractors called in to prepare the site for forensic excavations. […]
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Ssssh! Too few jobs to mention
THE number of new jobs created in West Belfast by international investors in the past three years is so tiny that Invest NI says it’s unable to release the figures. New stats released by the jobs body show that in East Belfast there were 1,408 new jobs created between 2011 and 2014, 1,020 in South […]
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Birthday Greetings 15th November
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Crime spirals in park/graveyard
INCIDENTS of anti-social behaviour in the Falls Park and City Cemetery have almost doubled in a year. Figures contained in this month’s Belfast City Council minutes show that reports to Council staff of drunken, nuisance behaviour, criminal and environmental damage and street drinking in the Upper Falls electoral area have increased from 172 in 2013 […]
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