Popular Ardoyne priest Fr Casimir Haran is seriously ill in hospital today after suffering a suspected stroke whilst celebrating a funeral mass yesterday (Wednesday). The much loved Holy Cross curate took ill whilst celebrating Requiem Mass on Wednesday morning and remains in a serious condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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CIRA Murder Victims’ families to speak out on brutal killings
The families of two men brutally murdered in Belfast five years ago are to finally break their silence at a press conference next week. The press conference is being organised by the families of Joe Jones and Eddie Burns on the fifth anniversary of their murders, at 10am next Monday 12 March at Conway Mill.
Serial armed robber ‘had a wish to get back to prison’
A serial armed robber from Ardoyne had a “wish to get back to prison” when he robbed a Carrickhill pharmacy last year, a judge has said. Mark Patrick Paul Toal (27), who used to live in Velsheda Park, was jailed for seven years for robbing the Medicare Pharmacy at Carrickhill
Priest’s take on border ‘alien to parishioners’
A NORTH Belfast priest has hit back at claims by a Glengormley colleague that Roman Catholics are beginning to prefer to be a part of the United Kingdom, describing the attitude as “alien” to locals.
Thieves steal alleygates
Vulnerable peoples’ homes in Ardoyne are now more at risk after large steel gates were stolen from a community group this week. That’s the view of a leading community worker after thieves broke a padlock to gain entrance to the back yard of the Ardoyne Association’s offices on Enta Drive and stole six of the alley gates valued at around £6,000 in total.
