Leading human rights barrister Michael Mansfield has been appointed by the Ballymurphy families to represent them at the forthcoming inquest into the killing of 11 people in the 1971 British army massacre. Mr Mansfield has represented clients in criminal trials, appeals and inquiries in some of the most controversial legal cases in Ireland and Britain, […]
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Top barrister Mansfield will represent families at upcoming Ballymurphy Massacre inquest
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SDLP and Sinn Féin welcome parade restriction while the Orange Order fumes
AN SDLP Councillor has welcomed the weekend decision by the Parades Commission not to allow an Orange parade to pass through the centre of Glengormley. The United Orange Districts Committee had planned to parade through the village next week in support of the Twaddell protest. The DUP in backing the parade said last week they […]
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Tories must explain their unionist ‘pact’ in North Belfast
The Conservative Party has been challenged to explain why they are not contesting North Belfast amid accusations they have entered into a pact with the DUP. Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness accused the party of engaging in an “anti-Sinn Féin electoral arrangement” after they announced they would stand in every six county constituency apart from North […]
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ARC of the Casement covenant
The new residents’ group set up in support of the Casement Park redevelopment is hoping to meet with all stakeholders involved in the project over the coming months. The newly formed Andersonstown Regeneration Committee (ARC) is fully behind the redevelopment of Casement Park. Last December a High Court judge quashed the decision to grant planning […]
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Student places cut and jobs lost as Queen’s University budget is slashed
QUEEN’S University has announced a series of swingeing cutbacks after £8m was axed from the funding it receives from the Department of Employment and Learning. The university says 236 jobs will be lost and next year’s student intake cut by 290 places after the north’s leading adademic institution became the latest victim of financial belt-tightening […]
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Belfast councillor failed to attend a single meeting of policing partnership in a year
A unionist councillor who failed to show up at a single District Policing and Community Safety Partnership meeting in 2014 says he stayed away because they are a “waste of time”. Veteran North Belfast Ulster Unionist David Browne says he purposely boycotted the 11 meetings because he doesn’t believe the Partnership is effective. Attendance figures […]
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