A WEST Belfast councillor has said someone could be killed unless more is done to crack down on the number of violent assaults in Lenadoon. Sinn Féin representative for the area Gerard O’Neill was speaking after a local father-of-two was viciously assaulted outside his Corrib Avenue home in Lenadoon just days after two of his neighbours were attacked by a drunken gang in an outrage we reported on last week.
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Officials split as ira tribute is taken down from new wall
THE Workers’ Party in West Belfast has been plunged into turmoil after several senior members in the Lower Falls offered their resignations in a row over a memorial tribute to dead IRA volunteers and party members. The split came after four newly-erected plaques which contained the names of over 90 fallen members of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party were taken down from a new memorial, located beside the Lower Falls Recreation and Social Club on the Grosvenor Road, better known locally as Cyprus Street.
Thugs halt play park work
CONSTRUCTION work at the Lenadoon play park has come to a halt due to ongoing vandalism. The contractor who is carrying out the final phase of the work has refused to come back onsite until the anti-social behaviour that has been plaguing the site ceases.
Enda breakthrough
THE Ballymurphy Massacre families have welcomed news that Taoiseach Enda Kenny has agreed to meet them to discuss the families’ ongoing campaign calling for a full independent international investigation of the 1971 atrocity.
My marathon highs and lows
HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).
Anniversary marked at Connolly home
The 96th anniversary of Irish revolutionary James Connolly’s execution will be commemorated at an event at his former Falls Road home this weekend. On Saturday, members of the James Connolly Society will gather at the house where the 1916 patriot lived during his stay in Belfast.
