The Irish Volunteers (IV) have announced that the armed group is to stand down in Belfast. In a statement released to the Andersonstown News last night (Wednesday), the group said that it will no longer exist as of midnight, in accordance with demands made by óglaigh na héireann. “From midnight tonight, all units of the Belfast […]
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Cops taken to task over holiday mayhem
An emergency meeting of the West Belfast District Policing and Community Safety Partnerships (DPCSP) tackled community concerns about the policing of our streets over the Christmas holiday period. Harry Connolly, Vice Chair West Belfast DPCSP and Policing Committee, explained why they had called for a sit-down with senior management of the PSNI. “The West Belfast […]
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Lower Falls police team in 4-mile move
Residents of the lower Falls say they feel they are being abandoned by the PSNI amid a new restructuring drive in the West of the city. Their local neighbourhood policing team is being transferred next month from the nearby Grosvenor Road station to Woodbourne station four miles away. Speaking on behalf of St Mary’s Community […]
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Housing market on the up
GREEN shoots of recovery have started sprouting across the West Belfast housing market with property sale offices here recording their busiest periods since 2006. Proprietor of McGranaghan Estate Agents.com, Des McGranaghan, told the Andersonstown News that the property market at present is “just buzzing” “This is the first time in six years that house prices […]
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Pill dealer’s death threat
A well-known dissident republican has threatened to shoot the drug dealer who supplied the deadly ecstasy tablets that killed a West Belfast DJ last month – because his kids were at the same party. The Twinbrook man called to the Turf Lodge home of the dealer days after Gerard Mulholland died from taking the ‘Speckled […]
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Local MLAs front-up debate on Haass
West Belfsat MLAs led the debate at Stormont on Monday on the fall-out from the Haass talks. The talks, which broke up without a deal on December 31, aimed to help resolve ongoing disputes over flags, parades and the past. Speaking following a narrow defeat by 52 votes to 49 of the Sinn Féin motion […]
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