Your Letters

Hours shaved off my life in bumper-to-bumper traffic

I am writing about the traffic on the Glen Road and Falls Road that was featured in a story on the paper this week. I live in Glencolin and work in the town.  During the summer I leave a little bit later in the mornings as the kids are off school and traffic is normally lighter. Since the work started on the Glen Road I have had to leave even earlier than I would when the schools are on. It takes...

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Thumbs up for Attwood proposals

I was very heartened to read in Thursday’s Andersonstown News edition about the proposals by Social Development Minister Alex Attwood to try to bring about some sort of system to stop excessive alcohol promotions. For too long now the off-licences and supermarkets have been getting away with murder with the sale of cheap liquor and very rarely do the young ones get stopped from buying the drink. Every weekend, and in some cases midweek, crowds of youths are gathering with...

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Still no facilities for our children in West

A few issues back the Andersonstown News featured a young father with his son saying that there were no decent facilities for our young ones to enjoy. There still doesn’t seem to be any push on this issue. I know that the cinema has now opened at the Kennedy Centre but surely there must be room/need for other pastimes?  If you look to the East of the city, namely Dundonald, you have the ice rink and the new adventure golf...

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Milltown controversy: Hit Church in pocket

HAVING read and seen the pictures of Milltown Cemetery in the Andersonstown News (October 23, 2010), I think it is time for some sort of action. The workmen are only doing what they were ordered to, we need to get the message to those in charge. The pictures were thoroughly disgusting, to say the least. I think everyone knows that Milltown has always been the worst looking and most neglected cemetery looked after by the Catholic Church. It only started...

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Mallon ‘calls a spade a spade’ on parades issue

Having grown up in Ardoyne and lived with the issue of parades literally on our doorstep, I read with confusion the letter from Sean Paul which appeared in last week’s paper.  Sean Paul, I call a spade a spade. Where the Parades Commission get it wrong, as they so blatantly did on 12th July in Ardoyne, I clearly say so and I make no apology for it.  The SDLP’s position on the Parades Commission is clear. We stand firm in...

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Parent’s anger at Pearses transfer dealings with kids

In response to a letter from Pearses chairman on 8th May 2010. On January 1st and 2nd this year my son, then a 13 year old boy, approached two of the most senior and long standing mentors of Pearses GAC and told them of his wish to leave Pearses to join another club. Both expressed their disappointment at losing him but both wished him well at whatever club he went to, indeed,  both of the mentors admired his courage in...

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