The WEST Belfast man who brought boxing great Joe Frazier to the city has paid tribute to the former world heavyweight champion who died this week‘Smokin’ Joe’ (67) died on Tuesday after a battle with liver cancer. He was well known for his series of battles with Muhammad Ali, which included handing ‘the Greatest’ his first-ever defeat in the ‘Fight of the Century’ in Madison Square Garden in 1971, and the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ in the Philippines in 1975.
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Alex recalls when he brought Smokin’ Joe Frazer to Belfast
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Ireland fans to go green on November 15
The Aviva Stadium has sold out for an Ireland soccer match for the first time ever, as excitement builds ahead of this week’s Euro 2012 qualification play-offs.Ireland travel to Estonia on Friday for the first leg, before returning to Dublin for what should be an electric atmosphere at the new Lansdowne Road on Tuesday night.
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Kids send out the right signal
PUPILS from St Oliver Plunkett Primary School on the Glen Road have been treated to a Belfast Giants game after collecting 600 mobile phones for a worthy cause.The pupils took part in the Phones4Change appeal, a major mobile phone recycling initiative rolled out across the North to help teachers equip their classrooms with state-of-the-art technology. […]
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Forget Halloween, it’s time for Christmas
THE first signs of Christmas were visible in Andersonstown this week after the first house was spotted with its Christmas decoration up… on Halloween night!Readers contacted the Andersonstown News on Monday after spotting the home in the Edenmore Drive area with Santa Claus ornaments in its windows and over-sized Christmas tree baubles hanging outside – all while fireworks explosed and local trick-or-treaters were still making their yearly house calls.
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It’s time to let the music begin
BELFAST is set to put on its brightest colours when the MTV Europe Music Awards come to town on Sunday.On the go since 1994, and having visited Madrid, London and Stockholm, this is the first time that the event has come to Ireland.
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Disabled man’s ‘LIFELINE’ taken from him by fire
A DISABLED Poleglass man said “I’ve lost my independence” after a firework ignited a fierce blaze at his home destroying his vital mobility scooter.56-year-old Michael Bailey from Laurelbank, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, stored his mobility scooter in an outdoor shed that was reduced to just a blackened shell by the devastating Halloween night fire.
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