Keencap’s album Fenian has reached number 1 in the Irish album charts  Earlier the band said it was donating all of the royalties from Fenian this week in Wales, England, Scotland and the Occupied 6 to Irish language organisation in West Belfast, Glór na Móna, the Irish language cultural centre on the Falls Road, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Tweeting this afternoon when word broke the FENIAN had reach number one in the Irish charts, Kneecap posted: “Muintir na hÉirean, is grá linn sibh. “We’re buzzing to be number 1 in the Irish charts. A big part of Kneecap has always been bringing the Irish language into the contemporary space, so young people see the language iso f value and on par with any other language. “And with this also comes showing solidarity with those who need it most around the  world and at home.” “This past year though, as the British state witch-hunt came for us, we got solidarity from across this island – electric picnic being one of our highlights this year with 50,000 of us in a field. “GRMA to everyone who got the album and we’ll see you this summer to celebrate FENIAN.” Later this afternoon when the UK album chart was announced, the band said:     Kneecap's first album release, 2024's Fine Art, went to number 43 in the UK and number two in the Republic of Ireland. 

WEST Belfast man Terry Sharpe lived a life marked by faith, humour, dignity and love, mourners were told at his funeral Mass on Friday morning.

THE National President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) – who has been in Belfast visiting a number of projects this week – has condemned a new mural in East Belfast which includes an image of a loyalist band marching past the scene of the Sean Graham bookmakers massacred. Five Catholics, including two teenagers, were shot dead by the UDA in the sectarian attack on the Ormeau Road in 1992. The mural, which was unveiled this week, shows a loyalist band marching past the bookmakers in the aftermath of the atrocity, where a banner had been erected by protestors reading ‘No sectarian marches’. Yesterday, Sean Pender met with relatives of the victims of the massacre during a visit to South Belfast. It was only afterwards that learnt of the mural which had been unveiled in the London Road and My Lady’s Road area of East Belfast. Funded by the Housing Executive as part of its ‘re-imaged’ project aimed at replacing paramilitary murals on its property., the housing body has now asked for the mural to be taken down. AOH chief Pender said he was shocked when saw images of the mural.

ANTRIM’S 2026 Tailteann Cup Campaign begins this weekend with the Saffrons set to make the trek to the South-East of the island where they hope to get revenge on Carlow following defeat in the previous meeting this season. 

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.