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Residents’ anger as Hugo Street becomes bottleneck

RESIDENTS whose homes are near St Kevin’s Primary School have called on the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) to allow for allocated drop-off and pick-up times for parents as their street has become a ‘no go area’ since the introduction of the Glider. Parents are no longer permitted to park in the bus lane outside the […]

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Celebrating Irish language

NOMINATIONS are still open for The Outstanding Contribution to the Irish Language Award in this year’s Aisling Awards. This award celebrates the vibrancy and uniqueness which the Irish language brings to the city of Belfast, the award will honour an organisation or person who works tirelessly to pioneer the language. This year’s Aisling Awards will […]

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Pic of the day, Thursday, September 13

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Pic of the Day, Wednesday, September 12

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The community group that took on a giant

MONEY breeds power, or so the idiom goes, but five years ago when plans were revealed for a quarter-billion pound waste incinerator in Glengormley, it sparked a grassroots community campaign that would go on to take on big capital and even the government. The NoArc21 campaign started when a small group of concerned residents called […]

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Man admits preventing burial of elderly neighbour

A 24-year-old man has admitted preventing the burial of an elderly neighbour whose body lay undiscovered in her West Belfast home for over two years. Robert Sharkey of Grays Hill in Bangor appeared at at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday and admitted all but one charge levelled against him. The body of 68-year-old Marie Conlon […]

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