LOCAL community and political representatives have accused DRD Roads Service of a “lack of consultation” over major roadworks that are due to start on the Glen Road on Monday. The resurfacing works are expected to take up to six weeks to complete. In letters distributed in the Glen Road and Suffolk areas Roads Service has […]
BACK-TO-SCHOOL FEAR AND LOATHING
SUMMER’S last breath brings a chill to the Tuesday morning air, while lines of immaculately-turned-out youngsters
Business as usual…
* Update, 1.30pm: Andersonstown News offices re-opened, however Glen Road is still cordoned off by PSNI. The Andersonstown News is operating as normal today, despite the paper’s Hannahstown office being evacuated this morning. Around 100 homes and businesses in the Glen Road/Hannahstown area were evacuated by police on Friday morning as they continued their search […]
iPlunkett greets Minister
Education Minister John O’Dowd paid a special visit to St Oliver Plunkett Primary School to see how pupils are learning through daily use of their new iPads.
Michael Collins’ gun put on show
A REVOLVER belonging to legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins is to be put on display in a local club. Pat McArdle of the Roddy McCorley Society on the Glen Road said securing Michael Collins’ Webley for display was “quite a coup” for the club’s private museum which is already a magnet for lovers of Irish history from across Ireland and beyond.