By david whelan d.whelan@belfastmediagroup.com THE funeral has taken place of A North Belfast teenager killed in a car accident in the South of the city. Conal Daly (18), a former Edmund Rice College pupil, was killed when the ‘runaround’ Jaguar he was travelling in collided with a Volkswagen Polo being driven by a 74-year-old nun […]
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OAP foils knife gang by throwing sweets
ARMED thugs fled a North Belfast convenience store empty-handed after a plucky pensioner fought back by hurling sweets at the would-be robbers. The drama unfolded at around 7am on Sunday when three hooded men – one of them brandishing a fearsome nine-inch blade – entered Marshalls news-agents on the Oldpark Road. They threatened the 72-year-old shop […]
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Top cop: ‘We will go where evidence takes us’
The PSNI officer in charge of investigating racist hate crime has told the North Belfast News that recent attacks on homes cannot be linked to loyalist paramilitaries. However, Superintendent Paula Hillman said that many of the recent attacks were still under investigation and police would “go where the evidence takes us”. Speaking from her office […]
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Students’ phones are snatched at bus stop
A GANG of criminals believed to be responsible for a rise in break-ins and burglaries in the New Lodge area are preying on vulnerable schoolchildren as they queue for buses after school on the busy Antrim Road. On Tuesday, a 16-year-old Belfast Royal Academy pupil became the second of the school’s students in a month […]
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Cowardly thugs target Alice (91) in her home
The daughter of a 91-year-old Whitewell woman who was subjected to a horrifying ordeal by a gang of burglars has branded the culprits “absolute scumbags”. Catrina McKernon said her mother, Alice McGreevy, is still badly shaken after her ordeal. At least two men were involved in the ransacking of her home on Thursday last. “My […]
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Further disruption to local community
By david whelan d.whelan@belfastmediagroup.com A LEADING PSNI officer has said that he does not believe the latest spike in security incidents, which have caused serious disruption in nationalist areas of North Belfast, is an upscaling of dissident republican activity but warned that it is ‘a stark reminder of the situation’. Chief Superindent Nigel Grimshaw, was […]
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