The £3.5 million transformation of an old North Belfast church into a cultural hub for the area was honoured last week for the quality of its make over. The new Duncairn Culture and Arts Centre picked up a highly regarded commendation from Royal Society of Ulster Architects judges who praised its ‘sympathetic transformation ‘from disused […]
Archive | North Belfast News
RSS feed for this section
Cultural centre’s design of the times
Read More
Comments Off on Cultural centre’s design of the times
DSD to be investigated over housing strategy
Minister for Social Development Nelson McCausland was put under more pressure last week when the Equality Commission announced they were to investigate the DSD over potential breaches of equality legislation. The investigation is to centre on the DSD’s Housing Strategy 2012 – 2017 and “a number of associated proposals”, according to a Commission spokesman. He […]
Read More
Comments Off on DSD to be investigated over housing strategy
Mum of shooting victim says ONH denied attack
The mother of a 24 year old man shot in the foot and leg in a gun attack last week has said the micro-republican group ONH has denied responsibility for the shooting. Kathleen Donnan, whose son Christopher was shot in Jamaica Street on Friday night, said she approached the gang as they had previously placed her […]
Read More
Comments Off on Mum of shooting victim says ONH denied attack
Robbery and drug crime up in North
Annual statistics published by the PSNI have shown a 3.6 per cent increase in recorded crime across A District, which includes North and West Belfast. In North Belfast the increase in recorded crime is a result of higher numbers of robbery (+15.7 per cent), violence without injury (+22.6 per cent), theft (+5 per cent) and […]
Read More
Comments Off on Robbery and drug crime up in North
DUP actions on housing sparks huge row at Stormont
A report that claims to lay bare the extent to which the DUP is getting involved in lobbying for housing changes in North Belfast sparked a huge row in Stormont this week, with nationalist parties uniting to accuse the party of engaging in ‘gerrymandering’. An extensive report released on investigative journalism website ‘The Detail’ published […]
Read More
Comments Off on DUP actions on housing sparks huge row at Stormont
‘Freelance’ ONH group behind pub firebombing
A ‘freelance’ ONH group, working separately from the west Belfast leadership, was behind the burning of an Oldpark bar in an attempt to curry favour locally. The North Belfast gang, who are only loosely affiliated with the ONH leadership in the west of the city, torched The Corner House bar in April. And the North […]
Read More
Comments Off on ‘Freelance’ ONH group behind pub firebombing
