AS the great and the good of Our Wee Pravince beam for the cameras after being included on this year’s Queen’s Corgi’s Birthday Honours List – or Spot the Catholic, as it’s known in West Belfast – Squinter wonders how he can elbow his way into this exalted company.
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Ceiling collapses twice in six weeks
A West Belfast mother has spoken of how she’s living in fear after her kitchen ceiling collapsed for the second time in six weeks.Christine Conlon says the Fold Group, who own her Sliabh Dubh View home, cannot trace the source of the problem that saw parts of the ceiling fall in, narrowly missing her eight month-old son.
‘Car park’ residents lose patience
RESIDENTS living in the Barrack Street area of West Belfast just yards from the city centre have called on the Department for Regional Development’s Road Service division to get busy on its plans for a residents’ parking scheme in the area.
Pubs packed to the rafters
IT might not have gone Ireland’s way against Croatia but West Belfast bars were packed to the rafters on Sunday night.“It was jumping here on Sunday night,” said Biddy Duffy’s manager Aidy O’Neill.
Jennifer lands top Stormont role
West Belfast MLA Jennifer McCann is Sinn Féin’s new Junior Minister at the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister. Jennifer will take over from Martina Anderson, who is Strasbourg-bound as the party’s newest MEP.
Pensioner robbed
A West Belfast pensionera says she’s had “the heart knocked out of me” after money she had raised for a children’s charity was stolen in a break-in. Sarah Maloney and her family organised a car boot sale to raise money for Smile Train, the world’s leading cleft lip and palate surgery charity.
