TWO staff members from Tesco Cityside are celebrating their retirement after 58 years of service between team. Sandra Sweeney (65) and Jean Mickle (64) have each dedicated 28 years of their lives to serving customers at the popular Tesco store and previously Co-Op in Cityside shopping mall at Yorkgate. Staff at the store held a […]
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14 drug-related deaths in North Belfast in 2017
THERE were 14 drug-related deaths in North Belfast in 2017, latest statistics have revealed. The figures by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) on Monday revealed there were 136 drug-related deaths across the north in 2017 – with 101 of them males – 74% of all drug-related deaths. The government statistics also revealed […]
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Cap’n Jamie in a new blockbuster
The Clogherhead Convention By Tim Clancy On an early spring day in the Irish Sea, two small Ulster fishing boats are laying down their nets when suddenly they find themselves in the shadow of the Irish Navy’s most feared warship. The little trawlers are impounded, their crews taken hostage. But why? Captain Jamie Bryson was […]
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The greatest novel about our nightmare
Once in a lifetime – perhaps twice if you’re lucky – you will finish a book and turn it upside down, flick through its pages deck-of-cards-style, shake it by its spine and even subject it to the sniff test, all in a bid to try to work out what magic it possessed to knock you […]
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Relatives for Justice call for Bradley resignation
VICTIMS’ group Relatives for Justice have added their voice to calls for Secretary of State Karen Bradley to resign after she said that killings by state forces during the conflict were “not crimes”. Mrs Bradley made the statement in the House of Commons on Wednesday after DUP MP Emma Little-Pengelly asked about the implementation of […]
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Percy popular for Gold Cup at Sean Graham preview night
CHRISTMAS doesn’t feel like Christmas until the tree goes up. Likewise, the countdown to Cheltenham begins in earnest for local punters after the hugely-popular Sean Graham preview night at Belfast’s Europa Hotel. This year’s top table included the top trainer from last year’s Festival Gordon Elliott along with David Casey, assistant trainer to his rival […]
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