Belfast Media Group | Andersonstown, North & South Belfast News

IT WAS freezing cold with a biting wind, but Immaculata showed they still had some fire in their hearts beating Crumlin Star 2-0 after their recent loss to Dunmurry Rec in the semi-final of the Steel and Sons Cup.

DUNDELA hosted Newington in the NIFL Championship at Wilgar Park on Friday, as the home side looked to close the gap on league leaders Loughgall to just three points; ahead of their trip to Dergview on Saturday afternoon.

BRENDAN Glackin's strike midway through the opening half was enough for Belfast Celtic to claim the points and local bragging rights at Donegal Celtic on Saturday.

GERRY ADAMS: Preserving our heritage in monuments and speech

In Dublin this morning morning a unique tour of the Moore Street 1916 Battlefield Site was hosted by the well known actor Adrian Dunbar. The tour was organised by the Moore Street Preservation Trust as part of the campaign to save Moore Street from the developers’ bulldozers. The terrace of houses from 10 to 25 Moore Street was occupied by the GPO garrison after it abandoned the blazing GPO on Friday evening April 28, 1916. Number 16 was the last headquarters of the leaders of the Rising. Seán MacDiarmada, Pádraig Pearse, Joseph Plunkett, James Connolly and Tom Clarke met and came to the reluctant conclusion that surrender was the only choice open to them to avoid further loss of life. Saturday’s tour will recall those historic events. As well as Adrian Dunbar, several actors playing the parts of Pádraig Pearse and Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, Honor Ó Brolcháin (a relative of Joseph Plunkett, one of the executed leaders) will tell the story of those tumultuous events as they walk the Battlefield site.

Double boost for An Droichead as Aisling gong and Gala combine

Plans for the annual An Droichead Gaeilge gala have been unveiled this week - just as the groundbreaking Irish language centre in South Belfast picked up an Aisling Award for its popular Irish classes.

SQUINTER: The Wild West comes to East Belfast

POLICE seized eight handguns and three pipe bombs in an operation aimed against the east Belfast UVF on Friday night past. One of the weapons recovered (right) was the iconic Colt .45 single action army revolver, known in the Wild West as ‘the Peacemaker’ and famously carried by Wyatt Earp. We spoke this week to Wyatt Earp about his decision to join the east Belfast UVF, his deep attachment to loyalism and his hopes that the liquor, girls and gambling subjugating Protocol can be done away with before there’s a return to shoot-outs and stagecoach hold-ups... AH shore didn’t know too much about yore liddle ole prahvince when Ah was jest a plain ole marshal in Tombstone roundin’ up drunks and playin’ three-card monte in the Silver Dollar saloon with mah buddy Doc Holliday. Till up’n around sundown one day the doors done fly open and an ornery lookin’ critter ambled in seemin’ as though he’d sump’n on his mind. His eyes were mean and full uh spite and when he caught my gaze why I’ll be hogtied if a shiver didn’ run down mah spine.

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Gavin Burns Solicitors pledge, fast, efficient, professional help for clients

The civil litigation department at Burns & Co. Solicitors is comprised of three solicitors and one apprentice solicitor – namely Gavin Burns, Principal, Paula Savage, Solicitor, Gerard Nugent, Solicitor and Victoria Sayers, an apprentice Solicitor who is due to complete her apprenticeship very soon.