THE Workers’ Party in West Belfast has been plunged into turmoil after several senior members in the Lower Falls offered their resignations in a row over a memorial tribute to dead IRA volunteers and party members. The split came after four newly-erected plaques which contained the names of over 90 fallen members of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party were taken down from a new memorial, located beside the Lower Falls Recreation and Social Club on the Grosvenor Road, better known locally as Cyprus Street.
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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
‘Good samaritan’ murder case sent to appeal court
A LOCAL man who spent over 17 years in prison after being convicted of one of the most notorious Troubles murders in West Belfast has had his case sent back to the Court of Appeal. Patrick Livingstone was found guilty in May 1977 of the IRA shooting of Belfast City Council worker Samuel Llewellyn, who had been abducted and killed while repairing broken windows
Murder witnesses asked to ‘do the right thing’
The families of two men brutally murdered five years ago in Belfast have hit out at the investigation into their deaths. Eddie Burns was found shot dead at the Bog Meadows on March 12 2007. A short time later Joe Jones was found in an alleyway off Elmfield Street in North Belfast
Son dismisses UDA chief’s comments
The son of one of the victims of the Sean Graham bookmakers’ massacre has said the leader of the UDA/UFF did not tell the people of the Lower Ormeau “anything new” when he recently stated the five killed were innocent.
Thatcher’s tale unquestioned but Dugdale’s another story
It’s funny the way people react to TV and film. Print? For most people now, much print requires too much effort – they prefer to watch the movie rather than read the book.
