A New Lodge mother of six has insisted she will not be forced from her home after a gang of eight men brutally assaulted her and her father in a weekend attack. Catriona Arbuckle suffered a hairline fracture to her cheek, multiple facial injuries and lost eight teeth when she was attacked outside her Meadow […]
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Mum of six viciously beaten by 8-man gang
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Poleglass summer riot chaos: 6 arrested
Police in West Belfast arrested six people at the weekend as part of a special operation against those involved in mass disorder in Poleglass over the summer – and warned more will follow. The arrests were in relation to disorder in the Poleglass area on Friday, August 8 when young people erected burning barricades and […]
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‘Boston tapes’ read to Storey
Extracts from the controversial Boston College tapes formed the basis of the interrogation of the leading Belfast republican Bobby Storey after his arrest last Thursday. The Sinn Féin six county chair was questioned for several hours in Antrim Serious Crime Suite about an IRA investigation into the whereabouts of Divis mother-of-ten Jean McConville, who was […]
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Ardoyne man sleeps rough for two nights
An Ardoyne community worker has braved the streets of Belfast for 48 hours armed with just a sleeping bag in an effort to raise awareness of growing homelessness across the city. Paul McCusker, a healthcare support worker and volunteer at the Welcome Organisation, slept rough from 3pm on Monday to 3pm on Wednesday to highlight […]
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Aaron’s in Oscar contender
A 12-year-old St Colm’s High School pupil is one of the stars of a new movie that could scoop an Oscar at February’s glittering Los Angeles ceremony. The spotlight first shone on Aaron Lynch from Poleglass when he starred in this year’s hit movie ’71 – the poster for the movie featured a still of […]
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Shared space projects ‘aid demise of PLU’
Loyalists in Tigers Bay seeking to de-rail a project for shared space in North Belfast have claimed that such cross-community projects harm the Protestant community. Members of the North Belfast, Westland and Shankill UPRG attended a public meeting for Tigers Bay residents on the future of McCrory community hall last Friday and voiced their anger […]
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