ANTRIM rounded off their Dr McKenna Cup campaign with a morale-boosting win over Down on Wednesday night, but the victory was overshadowed by a serious looking knee injury to Sean McVeigh. The Ballymena man was body-checked by Dan McCartan around the centre of the field in the 60th minute – a challenge that earned the […]
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Black hacks determined not to lose out
THE black taxi service are doing all in their power to ensure they don’t lose out when the new rapid transit system becomes operational. Belfast Taxi Community Interest Company (BTCIC) Manager Stephen Savage said their main aim was to make sure “we do not lose out”. “We have been kept up to date throughout this […]
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Crisis meeting held in wake of Falls rampage
An emergency meeting was held this week to discuss a rampage by death-drivers in the lower Falls over the holiday period. A video posted on YouTube shows two cars racing each other on the Falls Road at the Albert Street junction on New Year’s Eve as a number of people stand on the pavement watching. […]
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Antrim pass Jordanstown test
Antrim scored an impressive 20 points at a rain-lashed Creggan on Sunday, but the gloss was taken off an otherwise good performance with the concession of two needless goals. The visitors from UUJ were missing a host of household names who had either opted to play for their county – such as Kieran Hughes of […]
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Another drug death
THE death of 42-year-old Gerard Mulholland is another grim reminder of the devastating toll that drugs are taking on society. And it’s a reminder, too, that it is not just the young and impressionable who are at risk from the lethal substances being sold by ruthless and unscrupulous dealers. There has been much speculation about […]
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Haass talks end without agreement
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams says the party’s negotiating team believed there is a basis for a deal in the Haass proposals that broke up without agreement in the early hours of New Year’s Eve. After months of talks and negotiations, the former US diplomat Richard Haass and his co-chair, Professor Meghan O’Sullivan, headed back […]
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