FUNDING for the Belfast Boxing Strategy was reinstated on Monday night by Belfast City Council after members reversed cuts to amateur boxing. Funding in the region of £45,000 over the next four months was thrown into doubt at last month’s Strategic Policy and Resource Committee after members voted against continuing financial support. Before Monday’s meeting, […]
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Family and friends pay bench tribute to Marco
A SPECIAL bench has been unveiled at Valley Leisure Centre in Newtownabbey by friends and family in memory of a Yorkshire man who loved playing football there. Mark Hemingway passed away suddenly from pneumonia on Christmas Day in 2015. The 43-year-old worked as a boiler and gas engineer and first came to the north in […]
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Anger after flags erected at shared housing estate
NATIONALIST residents living in one of North Belfast’s first shared space social housing communities have expressed dismay at the appearance of unionist flags on lampposts this week. Residents of Fortwilliam Parade in the Glandore area awoke last Tuesday morning to find union and Ulster banner flags had been put up overnight. That is despite anyone […]
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Springfield residents meet Parades Commission
THE Springfield Residents’ Action Group have met with the Parades Commission to discuss the controversial Twelfth Parade on the Springfield Road. Last year the Parades Commission allowed the Orange Order parade through the Workman Avenue gates just two weeks after it banned a similar march from the same route, sparking a Twelfth of July protest […]
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Alastair decides to follow his dream
MANY of us dream of packing in our office jobs and demanding careers to follow our passions – and one man from South Belfast has done just that! Solicitor Alistair Macauley from always had the ambition to open his own shop, but after qualifying as a lawyer in 2012 he expected it would be a […]
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Tiarnan’s appeal to thoughtless drivers
A BELFAST teenager has appealed for drivers to park on the roads instead of parking over tactile paving that has been installed at junctions for the blind and visually impaired. 13-year-old Tiernan Devine was born at 24 weeks weighing only 1lb 3oz. Throughout his life Tiernan has suffered various medical difficulties and has had to […]
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