Sometimes people prod my chest and say, “How is it you’re always on about southern politics? Why don’t you write about what’s going on up here instead?” Well, mainly because I don’t want to be an idiot, given that the word ‘idiot’ come from ‘idios’, meaning one’s own self, in a narrow, parochial sense. I believe that when I write about southern politics, I’m writing about what’s happening in another part of my country.
Tag Archives: Sinn Fein
War of words continues over Sliabh Dubh estate
The Upper Springfield Community Safety Forum (USCSF) is the latest organisation to withdraw from a task group established to win badly-needed facilities for the Sliabh Dubh estate. USCSF has followed Sinn Féin – whose departure we reported last week – in leaving the task group after the Fold Group, who built the estate, sent letters to some of the estates residents clamping down on children in what Sinn Féin
Increase in funds a boost to local community groups
SOUTH Belfast MLA Alex Maskey has said local community groups should take advantage of the Laganside Events Grant Scheme now that the money available to applicants has been increased.
New homes for Hightown
Almost 350 new homes for the Hightown area of Glengormley have been given the go-ahead by the Planning Service. Plans that have been in the pipeline for the past five years to build 348 new houses off the main Hightown
While families watch and wait, close to 1,000 homes lie empty
THERE are almost 1,000 residential properties in West Belfast lying vacant even as demand for housing rockets towards crisis point. A figure of 986 homes – many of them recession-linked repossessions – was revealed in the Assembly recently by Finance Minister
3,000-plus and climbing: crush on local housing waiting list worsens
A LOCAL MLA has said the housing crisis is so bad in West Belfast that some people on the housing waiting list are resorting to drastic measures to improve their chances of getting allocated accommodation – including paying dissident paramilitary groups to send them bullets in the post.
