THE North Belfast Partnership Board has been wound up after the body was unable to secure funding for the next year amidst the continued absence of a Stormont budget. The Board, which operates a number of programmes on both sides of the interface, has ceased trading and their office on Duncairn Gardens has been locked […]
North Belfast Partnership shuts down after funding runs out
Everton Centre stalwart Jim set to call it a day after three decades
STAFF and service users at the Everton Day Centre in Ardoyne have bid a fond farewell to manager Jim Gray who retired from his role after almost 30 years. The Day Centre offers support to a range of people who suffer from mental health problems and Jim says he would miss his the job, which […]
Cops foil dissident ‘punishment’ attack
A PSNI swoop on a North Belfast house prevented a so-called punishment shooting by dissidents last month as the anti-agreement gun gangs stepped up their attacks on the community. The North Belfast News understands a man was minutes away from being shot by a gang that had entered the would-be victim’s house and were waiting […]
Rihanna’s bathroom a hopeless place for New Lodge resident
A LEAK and ceiling collapse in a flat used in the making of a Rihanna music video has left a New Lodge resident without use of a bathroom for five weeks. Paul Taggart, a resident of Oisin House tower block, contacted the North Belfast News after numerous attempts to get the problem fixed came to […]
Michael McGibbon vigil
Fr Gary Donegan hit out at the killers of Michael McGibbon calling on them to “turn away from these futile deeds.” Please follow and like us:
Nationalist majority is inevitable for North Belfast
NORTH Belfast is changing dramatically and will soon boast a nationalist political majority despite the “state of denial” in which unionists are existing. That’s the opinion of leading political commentator Brian Feeney who was speaking this week during a debate about sectarianism in the north of the city. The North Belfast man also accused unionist […]