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ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Making any plans this summer?

I THINK those who erected the Bobby Sands statue in Belfast should have applied for planning permission. Why they didn’t is anybody’s guess. Perhaps they were concerned about it being knocked back by City Hall, although I can’t see that having happened.

SQUINTER: Is this your souped-up people-botherer, sir?

SQUINTER’S got a lot of sympathy for the PSNI in relation to the Stewartstown Road drag race debacle on Monday evening.

WE SAY: Buckle up for summer – again

THE war of words over the axing of funding for an English-Irish placename project is another depressing example of the determination of unionism to keep scoring petty points that delight their staunchest followers but mean a drearily familiar round of division and anger that exhausts and dispirits the rest of us.

DÚLRA: Save Irish nature? Then save the Irish language

IF you want to save nature in Ireland, save the Irish language.

HEALTHWISE: Do you need Glutamine supplements? Maybe

Glutamine helps support immune cells and is a primary fuel source for our intestinal cells.

GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories

WHEN I was a wee buck growing up in Ballymurphy there was a river at the back of the houses across from our home place at the corner of Glenalina Road and Divismore Park. The river ran the length of our street and the length of Ballymurphy Road before exiting below the Whiterock Road and into the City Cemetery. From there it meandered down to and under the Falls Road beside the bus depot and onwards to the Bog Meadows. You can see it there to this day. The stretch which used to border our street was long ago captured and incarcerated in a pipe below ground.

EYE ON THE PAST: May 1985 – Garrett flies in – but will Gaddafii be next?

We look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week in 1985...

PLATING UP: Beef teriyaki with tender stem broccoli and mixed salad

We hope you enjoy our cookery column with chef Paul Watters who each week will take the fear out of cooking with his easy to follow recipes...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: PSNI disinterest enabled the Colin area scumfest

For months and months living in the Colin area has been testing, through absolutely no fault of the ratepaying workers who proudly call the area home.

CELTIC STORIES: Hoops get over the line at Easter Road and a Green Wall awaits

THREE games remain in the 2025/26 Scottish Premiership season, and it seems that after the second round of post-split fixtures - we lost a horse. Bye bye Rangers.

JUDE COLLINS: Many of Israel's most trenchant critics are Jews

This is not a good time to be a Jewish person in the UK. In the past week, two Jewish men were attacked and hospitalized. In 2025, there were 170 antisemitic assaults in the UK alone, with four cases of extreme violence. Jewish people throughout the UK speak of feeling fearful, especially when there are marches in support of Palestinians.

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ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Making any plans this summer?

SQUINTER: Is this your souped-up people-botherer, sir?

WE SAY: Buckle up for summer – again

DÚLRA: Save Irish nature? Then save the Irish language

HEALTHWISE: Do you need Glutamine supplements? Maybe

GERRY ADAMS: Springhill heroes invoke warm local memories

EYE ON THE PAST: May 1985 – Garrett flies in – but will Gaddafii be next?

PLATING UP: Beef teriyaki with tender stem broccoli and mixed salad

ANDRÉE MURPHY: PSNI disinterest enabled the Colin area scumfest

CELTIC STORIES: Hoops get over the line at Easter Road and a Green Wall awaits

JUDE COLLINS: Many of Israel's most trenchant critics are Jews

PLATING UP: Peri peri chicken thighs on a bed of couscous and mixed salad

EYE ON THE PAST: May 1985 – Lenadoon residents build new church

HEALTHWISE: The benefits of ginger are many and varied

DÚLRA: Swift and snug but no such luck for our lapwings

Soccer: Reds enjoy back-to-back wins after victory at Ports

Gaelic Games: Lámh Dhearg host Senior Awards night at Beechlawns

CELTIC STORIES: German pints and derby drama in what may be a season-defining week for the Hoops

Soccer: Cliftonville earn huge win over title chasing Linfield

Trócaire condemns acts of war in the Middle East

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: DUP: Why the hell didn’t the Chucks come with us?

SQUINTER: I'm back in Dougie’s good books

DÚLRA: Five-star peregrines look down on us from above

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