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WE SAY: Unionist response to flying of Palestine flag entirely predictable

THE loyalist response to the decision by Belfast City Council to fly the Palestine flag over Belfast City Hall was entirely predictable.

EYE ON THE PAST: December 1984 – Priest's plea to RUC over Norah killing

We look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week in 1984

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Midnight at the gates of no-longer-loyal City Hall

IT SEEMS I’m a traitor.

CELTIC STORIES: This could be Rotterdam or Edinburgh, Celtic win them both

THE pleasure of following Celtic everywhere they go was truly at its peak last Thursday when an away end filled with green and white was sent into pandemonium as Martin O'Neill waved his magic wand to claim an impressive 1-3 victory over Feyenoord in Rotterdam.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Israel boycott elitists should leave people alone to do their own thing

I’M going to tell you the trouble with BDS. Not because I’m opposed to boycotting, divesting from or sanctioning the genocidal ethnostate of Israel – on the contrary, I think these things are not only necessary but essential if the final frayed and straining thread on the rope connecting the West to humanity is to hold. Rather, I’m going to tell you the trouble with BDS because I want it to stop being a niche activity.

WE SAY: DUP enter the battle for the true-blue hearts

FASTEN your seatbelts, we’re in for a bumpy 18 months.

DÚLRA: RSPB bird stickers are a window to a better future

DÚLRA finds it impossible to define his feelings when he discovered a dead bird under the kitchen window this week.

EYE ON THE PAST: December 1984 – New video evidence casts light on Norah McCabe killing

WE look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week in 1984

HEALTHWISE: Why your should detox yourself of detox diets

DETOX is a popular word in the health and wellness world. It refers to the idea that from time to time we need to clear toxic waste from our bodies to stay healthy.

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Is it time we had a commission for commissions?

THERE are things that seem like a really good idea at the time but then experience prompts us to ask if they really are.

CELTIC STORIES: Captain Fantastic spares Celtic blushes after disastrous AGM

I HAD the pleasure enjoying a unique cultural experience for the past seven days, feeding wild monkeys peanuts, touring the desert on a camel and exploring Africa's second-largest waterfalls before finally discovering the magnificence Moroccan culture.

JUDE COLLINS: Under-pressure Givan gets a lucky and Godly break

I WONDER if Education Minister Paul Givan takes two showers a day? He looks so fresh and aromatic, with that scrubbed Christian look you find on the faces of people who want to know if you’ve found Jesus yet.

GERRY ADAMS: Tom opens a new chapter on the Al Rawdah prison ship

FOR the first time ever the families of many of the 207 republican internees held on the Al Rawdah prison ship between 1940 and 1941 met in Belfast. 85 years after their loved ones were interned on the prison hulk the families came together for the launch of Tom Hartley’s insightful account of that period, 'The SS Al Rawdah'.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: God Save the King and No Surrender at Windsor: Time for the IFA to run up the white flag

IT’S my fault. I know I shouldn’t go on social media and say anything about the IFA or the Northern Ireland team because the only thing that ever comes of it is confrontation and chaos. But I do. And I did.

WE SAY: Postcode poverty – Labour is betraying our children

OVER 5,000 children in West Belfast are living in households adversely affected by the two-child benefit cap, it’s been revealed.

Belfast gets the crumbs off the table with Euro 2028 draw

Gaelic Games: St Gall's set up All-Belfast final after victory over Creggan

Soccer: Depleted Cliftonville welcome Swifts to Solitude

Soccer: Joe 'the goal' breaks 300 goals as Reds advance to last eight

Community Gardening: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is here, time to get planting

PLATING UP: A chilli lime and coriander seasoned Basa fillet on a bed of baby beets

EYE ON THE PAST: November 1984 – Direct Rule plan for Belfast

Police treat UVF graffiti at Alliance office as a 'hate crime'

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