The Parades Commission has ruled that Orangemen will not be allowed to return past Nationalist homes on the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne on July 12. The determination, released just before noon today (Thursday) as the North Belfast News went to print, will be met with relief in nationalist Ardoyne. Talks between residents and the Orange […]
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Increase in Glengormley flags ‘causing concern’
An increase in the number and size of flags being erected in Glengormley ahead of the marching season is causing unease amongst residents, a local councillor has said. Sinn Féin’s Gerry O’Reilly said their office had been contacted a number of times by concerned residents who say they are seeing flags being put up in […]
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Orange Order pulls out of talks on Ardoyne
A talks process involving the Orange Order, an Ardoyne residents group and local clergymen has been halted without explanation after the Orange Order withdrew from the process. The talks, which have been ongoing from March and facilitated by Catholic Bishop Donal McKeown and Church of Ireland Bishop Alan Abernethy, have been “postponed” with the Orange […]
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Pipe bomb mum pleads for an end to attacks
A New Lodge mother of two who had her car shot into in January says she is ‘terrified’ after a pipe bomb was left at the same vehicle outside her home this week. Lindsey Ward says Wednesday’s attack, when a device described by the PSNI as ‘viable’ was left at her Spamount Street home, is […]
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Rúbaí reds up at movie awards
An Irish language film which features a young girl who declares her atheism in the run up to her First Holy Communion has won the Belfast Film Festival Short Film Competition Sponsored by the Belfast Media Group the 14th Belfast Film Festival Short Film Competition featured entries from across the country of films up to […]
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Murdered man’s family plead for information
The family of Kevin Kearney who was brutally murdered in a park in broad daylight last October have made a renewed appeal for information ahead of Fathers Day this weekend. The mother of two of the 46 year old’s four children, Charlene Whelan, says both her and Kevin’s three youngest children, Amy, 5, Jessica, 8, […]
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