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WATCH: Laughing Youth in sickening attack on Waterworks goose should be prosecuted for animal cruelty says councillor

CAUTION: This video contains disturbing imagery. A NORTH Belfast DUP representative has hit out angrily after sickening footage appeared online of a Waterworks thug savagely kicking a gosling. In the footage, a young male is filmed crossing the footpath where a family of geese is gathered and delivering a vicious kick to a greylag gosling […]

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Malachy McAllister deportation: Chair of Congress Committee and NY Senator unite to blast President Trump

Two senior figures on Capitol Hill have taken aim at President Trump over the deportation of Belfast political asylum seeker Malachy McAllister. The Lower Ormeau man was flown home to Ireland yesterday in an Air Ambulance by Federal authorities — he had suffered a dislocated shoulder in a weekend biking accident.  New York Senator Charles […]

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Deported: After 24-year battle, Malachy McAllister returned to Ireland by Air Ambulance

With family members and supporters looking on Malachy McAllister surrendered himself to federal authorities in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday morning, June 9, for what all believed would be the final chapter in an extraordinary 24-year American saga. At time of writing, McAllister is on his way back to Belfast via Air Ambulance after having […]

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As emergency relief effort winds up, Ardoyne Food Bank appeals for donations to meet continued need

The 12-week community relief effort in response to the coronavirus crisis has finished but many people are still struggling and in need of support. That’s the message from Nicola Bradley who has spearheaded the work of North Belfast food banks since the pandemic struck. “We are solely relying on donations at the minute,” she said. […]

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New Lord Mayor to perform first international engagement virtually at New York-New Belfast summit

The New York – New Belfast Conference, a major transatlantic conference celebrating and forging links between Belfast and New York, will move online for the first time, bringing together some of the senior leadership tasked with the fight against coronavirus in both cities to look at economic recovery plans. Belfast City Council is sponsoring the […]

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VIDEO REPORT: Jean Smyth-Campbell’s sister makes emotional appeal for information on 48th anniversary of her death

The family of West Belfast woman Jean Smyth-Campbell have urged witnesses to her death to come forward 48 years after she was shot dead. The 24-year-old mother-of-one was fatally wounded on the Glen Road around 11.40pm on June 8 1972 after a night out with friends. The family believed for several years that the IRA […]

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