SHAWS Bridge children’s play park is set to benefit from £165,000 of Belfast City Council funding as part of ambitious refurbishment plans. As part of its Playground Improvement Programme, Belfast City Council intend to commence work at the end of this month so that the play park will be in full ‘swing’ come the Easter […]
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Man to stand trial for murder of West Belfast mum-of-three
A MAN is to stand trial for the murder of a mother-of-three in West Belfast. 40-year-old Raymond O’Neill appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court on Friday accused of killing Jennifer Dornan (30) and setting fire to her home in August 2015. He is also separately charged with the rape of another woman in December 2003. Mr […]
50 kilos of cannabis seized in North and West of the city
FOUR men will appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Friday morning following the seizure of cannabis with an estimated street value of £1 million was seized in a police operation on Wednesday night. Properties on the Springfield Road and Shore Road, as well as two vehicles, were searched by police as 50 kilos of the […]
EYE ON THE PAST: January 4 & 11, 1975
Sad home coming for Mary and Billy IT was a sad Christmas for Mary and Billy Kennedy despite their release from internment on Christmas Eve. For the Kennedys – parents of seven children – found their maisonette home in Divis Flats in ruins when they returned to it just hours before Christmas. Ceilings and walls […]
John could be your new country voice of Ireland
THE ever-talented West Belfast musician John Rafferty will battle it out on TG4’s Glór Tíre talent show in the coming weeks as he looks to become Ireland’s next big country music star. Industry heavyweights reviewed video performances from singers across the country in the search and have narrowed it down to a final six. Whiterock […]
Spotting enemies of the people
NEW Year files being declassified feel a lot less like history. This year it was disconcerting to read disclosure of NIO briefings from 1990 refer to friends and colleagues being named along with their organisations. The Committee on the Administration of Justice was the subject of one of the documents, a document we know was […]
Crime thriller being filmed in Lenadoon
ACTORS and film crews descended on Lenadoon this week as they filmed a scene of a highly anticipated new RTÉ and BBC crime drama. Extras dressed in 80s garb and classic 1968 Triumph 2000 MK2 car were at the film site outside Ryan’s Shop in Carrigart Avenue as they shot a 1986 flashback scene of […]
