The mother of a West Belfast man who died in the Belfast City Hospital last year says she feels vindicated that the PSNI are investigating his death. Sean Paul Carnahan passed away last July, five months after he tried to take his own life while under the influence of a legal high. As we reported […]
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Common sense is needed ahead of judicial review
Local businessman Harry Fitzsimons – who has recently returned home to Andersonstown after being held in Italy as part of a £400m Mafia investigation – has thrown himself into the debate on the future of Casement Park. The Owenvarragh man, a Lámh Dhearg club member who lives in the shadow of the Andersonstown stadium, has […]
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Féile just keeps getting bigger and better
The mud on the wellies has dried in and the curtain has come down on Féile an Phobail’s August festival. This year’s event was by far the biggest and the best. Twitter and Facebook are awash with positivity about not only the variety of events, the performance of the acts and the affordability of the […]
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The long wait for freedom
An Irish politician said recently that Irish people would have got freedom sooner – and better – if the 1916 Rising had not happened. That’s a bit like saying there was no need for Einstein because somebody would have thought up the Theory of Relativity anyway; or Father Lemaitre need not have discovered the Big […]
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Colour party flanks coffin of veteran republican
Hundreds of people turned out in Lenadoon yesterday (Wednesday) to pay their respects to Tony Catney who passed away at the weekend after a long illness. The lifelong republican, a former Sinn Féin Director of Elections but recently associated with the 1916 Societies, was honoured with a full paramilitary funeral. An eight-strong colour party flanked […]
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Only four ambulances covered city on Friday
THE Andersonstown News has learned that only four ambulance crews were covering the whole of Belfast on Friday night. Seven emergency service vehicles should have been covering the city with two services stationed at Broadway, two at Ardoyne, one at Purdysburn and two at The Bridge Station in Templemore. Our source said morale amongst emergency […]
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