WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has urged the West Belfast community to support the ‘Save St Mary’s’ campaign as the university college comes under increased threat of closure due to “savage” cuts. Mr Maskey told the Andersonstown News that following a recent meeting he had with the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) Minister Stephen […]
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MP Maskey gets tough in fight to save St Mary’s
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Brother and sister oaps burgled by bogus caller
A 76 year old disabled man who lives with his 86 year old sister has told how a bogus caller forced him to kneel in pain for five minutes while an accomplice searched his home before the pair made off with a sum of cash. The man, who does not want to be identified, was […]
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Principal of CBS on the plan that died
A great opportunity has been denied to the people of West Belfast, says CBS Principal Tom Armstrong as the dust settles after the shock decision to scrap the amalgamation of St Mary’s Christian Brothers’ Grammar School and CBS. The Andersonstown News revealed in December how plans to merge the neighbouring Glen Road post-primaries were abandoned […]
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Twaddell laid bare
SNATCHED footage giving a remarkable glimpse inside the protest camp at Twaddell Avenue and handed to the Andersonstown News has provided more evidence that no-one actually lives on the site, despite loyalist claims that it’s occupied at all times. Just days ago a West Belfast man gained access to the camp through a gap in […]
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New Springhill inquests
NEW inquests into the deaths of civilians, one as young as 13, shot dead by the British army during the 1972 Springhill Massacre are to be opened. Attorney General John Larkin directed the fresh inquests on Wednesday into the July 9, 1972 killings of 13-year-old Margaret Gargan, 16-year-old John Dougal, 14-year-old David McCafferty and 38-year-old […]
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Oldpark cut victim blames loyalists
An Oldpark man hospitalised after being beaten and cut as he visited his daughter on the Shore Road for Christmas claims loyalists were behind the unprovoked attack. Patrick Rooney, 34, said he had called to see his daughter, who lives with her mother, on Christmas Eve when a man and a woman set upon him […]
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