THE family of a 16-year-old Ballymurphy boy who was shot in the back by a British army sniper 37 years ago have appealed for witnesses to come forward as his anniversary approaches. Paul McWilliams was shot and killed in controversial circumstances on the morning of August 9 1977 near Corry’s timber yard close to the […]
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Republican uniform in Lisburn
An Irish Volunteer uniform has gone on display in the centre of Lisburn for the first time. The item is part of an exhibit titled Lisburn 1912-1914 that is dedicated to the local connection to World War I and is on display at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum. The Museum confirmed it is […]
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Master blaster misses the point… again
“That’s terrible,” said Peter Sheehan as he sat in the Bridge Bar and Grill in Glengormley watching the Munster hurling final between Limerick and Cork a few weeks ago. Peter is a Limerick man and a hurling fanatic. He came to north Belfast in the mid-1970s as a bar manager. He played for St Enda’s […]
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Sinn Féin will fight against ‘Tory cuts’
A West Belfast Sinn Féin councillor has spoken out against welfare cuts and said the DUP must take some of the blame for deprivation in the Protestant community. Jim McVeigh, who is the party’s leader on Belfast City Council, reiterated that the party are “implacably opposed to the Tory cuts agenda in the North” and […]
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Man exposes himself in Milltown Cemetery
A man exposed himself to two children and made lewd gestures to a woman in two separate incidents in a West Belfast cemetery at the weekend. Police are investigating after the man exposed himself to two girls, aged just eight, and made the obscene gestures towards a woman sitting alone at a grave in Milltown […]
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Bring the sweet bird song back to your garden
If only workmen weren’t so damned professional nowadays, our birdlife would be in better shape. When Dúlra was a youngster, a starling nested under a slate at the left-hand side of his bedroom window, and a house sparrow nested in a gap between the gutter board and a slate at the right-hand side of the […]
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