Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has paid tribute to Bobby Storey as “a great republican and a great human being.” Mr Adams delivered the funeral oration for Bobby Storey at the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery this afternoon. Ahead of Mr Adams’ address, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O’Neill read a poem by Robert […]
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Mass returns and the congregation responds
A PARISH priest has welcomed the re-opening of churches for Mass this week. After months of restrictions due to Covid-19 and Mass being said in empty churches and shared online, the public were given the go-ahead to attend services from Monday. It is the latest easing of restrictions after churches re-opened for private prayer last […]
Thousands gather to bid farewell to republican icon Bobby Storey
Thousands of people have gathered in West Belfast for the funeral of veteran republican Bobby Storey. The 64-year-old, who died last week, was laid to rest following Requiem Mass at St. Agnes Church in Andersonstown. Mourners could be seen congregating gathering near Mr Storey’s Owenvarragh Park home by as early 9am, with up to 500 […]
VIDEO REPORT: Bobby Storey funeral underway in Andersonstown
The funeral is taking place of iconic republican leader Bobby Storey. His Tricolour-draped coffin was carried from his home at Owenvarragh Park earlier for requiem mass at the nearby St Agnes’ Chapel. Large crowds lined the route from this home to the church with many mourners dressed in white shirts and black ties. His family […]
Noah Donohoe to be buried from St Patrick’s Chapel on Wednesday
Noah Donohoe will be buried on Wednesday 1 July after funeral mass at 11am in St Patrick’s Chapel, Donegall Street. Due to Covid-19 distancing restrictions, the service for the 14-year-old who went missing on Sunday 20 June and was discovered dead six days later, will be strictly private and for family only. Following the service, […]
Dating Amber star Lola Petticrew brings her ‘A’ game to story of gay love in nineties Ireland
WEST Belfast actress Lola Petticrew’s star is very much in the ascendant, as she tells this reporter how “lightning in a bottle” was captured during her latest work, Amazon Prime’s Dating Amber. Directed by David Freyne, the film tells the story of Eddie played by Normal People’s Fionn O’Shea and Lola’s Amber, two gay teenagers […]
50 years after his murder, family releases photo of dying Falls Curfew victim Charlie O’Neill
Charles (Charlie) O’Neill had only returned to live in Belfast a few months before he was run over and killed by British Army vehicle during the Falls Curfew of 1970. The 36-year-old was returning home from St George’s Market when he arrived at a British army barricade as the curfew was starting, near the old […]
TUAIRIM – Gráinne Ní Ghilín: Misneach múscailte i mná a bhí ina dtost go dtí seo
Gearradh téarma príosúnachta fiche bliain ar fhear as Tiobraid Árann as coireanna gnéasacha a dhéanamh ar iníonacha, seachtar acu, agus ar a dheirfiúr. Scéal millteanach truamhéalach atá ann agus tá ceisteanna á n-ardú faoi ról an Stáit ann. Ar tugadh neamhaird ar chlann O’Reilly agus iad ina bpáistí toisc gur Taistealaithe iad? Tá an teaghlach […]
