Under Dr Maguire’s approach and restructuring of historic investigations, post-Al Hutchinson, the Office of the Police Ombudsman now enjoys the confidence of families. That’s a fact reinforced by this week’s CJINI report underlining a best practice approach. This is in stark contrast to the discredited PSNI’s Historic Enquiries Team (HET) that continues to deny families […]
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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS 11TH OCTOBER 2014
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Casement: residents using ‘flawed’ argument
The judicial review of the Department of the Environ-ment’s decision to grant planning permission for the new Casement Park will enter its tenth and most likely final day of hearings on Thursday morning. The case has been brought by residents’ group MORA who are seeking to overturn the planning decision, arguing that a 38,000-seater venue […]
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ONH threaten to kill water staff
By Ciara Quinn c.quinn@belfastmediagroup.com WORKERS doing essential water main upgrades in West Belfast have downed tools after threats to “blow them off the streets” by dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann. It is understood the threats were made to Farran Construction staff as they carried out work in the Glen Parade and Glen Crescent area […]
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Meeting goes downhill very quickly
THERE’S a car half-blocking the entrance to the Andytown News. It’s a black Fiesta with a southern registration and there’s nobody in it. Squinter immediately thinks ‘car bomb’, which kind of dates him. Then he remembers it’s 2014 and he thinks ‘stolen’. But no. Along come a couple, one a middle-aged jogger in running gear […]
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New inquests will put MRF in the spotlight
Fresh inquests into the murders of two West Belfast men by the British Army’s shadowy Military Reaction Force have been ordered by the Attorney General. The development comes after new evidence was gathered from a BBC Panorama programme about the MRF which was broadcast last year. Patrick McVeigh, a 44-year-old father-of-six, was shot dead by […]
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