Maghaberry medical authorities missed four chances to diagnose a brain tumour in a young prisoner who died two months after being released from jail, the Prisoner Ombudsman has found. The man – whose family have asked that he remain anonymous – suffered unnecessarily because of a lack of co-ordination between the Prison Service and the […]
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Maghaberry medical staff missed chances to diagnosis prisoner’s deadly tumour, new report finds
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Adams briefs New York Comptroller’s office on growing NAMA controversy
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has briefed the New York Comptroller’s office on the growing NAMA controversy. Mr Adams is in New York to attend the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual gathering of global leaders designed to address the most pressing issues of the day. On Saturday he sat down with an official from the […]
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NAMA: Gareth Graham gives evidence to powerful US enforcement agencies in New York
The growing NAMA scandal moved up a gear yesterday as one of the key figures travelled to New York to give evidence to federal investigators from a range of powerful United States enforcement agencies. Gareth Graham, who last week made a series of serious allegations to the Stormont finance committee about the handling of his […]
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Housing body takes photographs of its tenants in their living rooms
A HOUSING assocation has begun taking pictures of its tenants in their living rooms, we can reveal. Apex Housing officers spent yesterday (Wednesday) visiting homes in Derryveagh, Lenadoon, snapping headshots of tenants in their homes. The social housing agency sent letters to its tenants in Derryveagh last week informing them that they would be in […]
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New Belfast Rapid Transit system put back a year because of cuts
WEST Belfast motorists can expect a further year of traffic gridlock as the finish date for the ambitious Belfast Rapid Transit (BRT) system has been delayed until 2018, we can reveal. The BRT was expected to be fully operational by autumn 2017. But continuing cutbacks at the Department for Regional Development – currently without a […]
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McGurk’s Bar families prepare themselves for crucial High Court hearing
FAMILIES of those murdered in the McGurk’s Bar atrocity will see the latest stage of their long battle for justice move to the High Court on Friday. Speaking to Daily Belfast ahead of the hearing, Robert McClenaghan – whose 73-year-old grandfather Philip Garry was the oldest person to die in the December 1971 blast – […]
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