MOTORISTS and pedestrians would be hard-pressed not to notice the tattered advertising banners that are clinging for dear life to railings at the junction of the Suffolk Road and Stewartstown Road.
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Man arrested as police seize drugs in RVH
YOUTH workers have warned young people against using illegally obtained prescription drugs after a police apprehended what is believed to be a quantity of diazepam tablets from a man in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Easter lily lock-up
THE administration of Maghaberry Prison has been condemned for putting republican prisoners under 24-hour lock-up over the Easter weekend for refusing to remove their Easter lilies. A spokesperson for the Family and Friends of Republican Prisoners Maghaberry group claim the prisoners were locked up on
RSF ‘nonsense’ over GAA ‘sell-out’
REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin have been accused of talking “nonsense” after an astonishing attack on the GAA during the party’s Easter commemoration at Milltown Cemetery on Sunday. The party, which is aligned to the Continuity IRA, which burned a digger at Casement Park two years ago after contractors working on the Andersonstown
Thousands remember Easter dead
THOUSANDS of republicans from across Belfast and further afield turned out to remember their dead in a series of Easter parades and commemorations over the weekend. Large crowds lined the Falls Road, where children waved tricolours, to welcome the main National Graves Association Parade on Easter Sunday. The largest of all the parades, the annual Milltown
81-year-old woman dies in blaze
A pensioner has died after a fire broke out at a local residential home. The 81-year-old woman died yesterday (Wednesday) after she suffered extensive burns in Tuesday night’s blaze at Owenvale Court.
