An Indian man who was held up at knifepoint by three youths as he walked to his North Belfast home last Saturday (March 3) says he is terrified to leave the house after the vicious attack. Santosh Chowdhury, who is co-ordinator of the North Belfast Bengali Cultural Association, was walking from the Sikh Temple on Duncairn Gardens to his Brookvale Fold home at around 11pm when he was physically assaulted and racially abused by three youths between 14 and 15-years-old.
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Michael D follows in Mary’s footsteps
North Belfast political representatives met with President Michael D Higgins last week during his first official visit to the North. Sinn Féin MLAs Gerry Kelly and Carál Ní Chuilín met with the president in south Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre. He also paid a visit to the Wave Trauma Centre just off the Antrim Road to see how victims of the Troubles are being supported.
Gateways to success
There will be many straws in the wind to indicate when the benefits of peace have arrived in the working class communities of Belfast. A new stadium at Casement would certainly be one – hopefully the buffoons who regard Roger Casement as a ‘terrorist’ can hold their tongues when the opening rolls around in 2015 – and, indeed, a leisure centre easily accessible to the nationalists of North Belfast would be another.
Empty houses to be postered
The Irish Republican Socialist party (IRSP) has vowed to poster every empty house in North Belfast in a bid to highlight the number of homes sitting unoccupied despite housing need in the area being at crisis point.
Sex abuse rally to give victims back their voice
A North Belfast woman who co-founded a survivors group after she was sexually abused as a child has organised a rally next week to raise awareness of abuse. Oldpark woman Julieanne Boyle was the first woman to come forward without anonymity in a sexual abuse case 17 years ago.
Grief and relief as Joby is finally laid to rest
The family and friends of Joby Murphy lined the streets of North Belfast in their hundreds this morning (Thursday) to say their final goodbyes to the 20-year-old who died after falling into the River Lagan last month. The Glengormley man’s body was recovered on Saturday past, over a month after he had fallen into the river after a night out at the Odyssey complex.
