Andersonstown News

WIZARD OF OZ: There's no place like Mercy College this week

THERE’S no place like Mercy College in North Belfast this week as the school collaborates with Boys’ Model to bring the Wizard of Oz to the stage.

NOLLAIG SHONA: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

PUTTING up the Christmas lights on the Falls Road on Monday night behind the backdrop of an evening sunset

'My heart is broken': Tributes paid to Glenavy crash victims

TRIBUTES have been paid to two young people who tragically lost their lives in a crash at the weekend.

It's official: West Belfast is the food capital of the North

IT was a night of celebration for West Belfast at the NI Food To Go awards at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

No prosecution over damaged DUP mayor City Hall portrait

A MAN who was investigated after a portrait of a former Belfast Lord Mayor was damaged at a City Hall event will not be prosecuted, the Public Prosecution Service has confirmed. The painting of the former Democratic Unionist Mayor Lord Browne was damaged during an event at City Hall in October last year. The incident took place during Irish language organisation Glór na Móna’s 20th anniversary dinner. A Sinn Féin employee who worked for the party at Stormont resigned over the incident. The PPS said there was no reasonable prospect of conviction, adding “prosecutors can only initiate proceeding based on the evidence that is available and in this case there were significant evidential gaps which undermined the prospects of a conviction”. A spokesperson for the PSNI said: "The Public Prosecution Service has now considered the evidence in this matter and have directed ‘no prosecution’ as there was no reasonable prospect of conviction for any criminal offence on the evidence available.

Kneecap announce biggest headline show to date: London, June 2026

KNEECAP have announced their biggest headline show to date.

Gaelic Games: Biddies overcome 13-man St Gall's to clinch U-21 glory

U21A Football Championship FinalSt Brigid's 3-13St Gall's 1-14At Woodlands

Irish passport office in the North would help reduce backlogs

SINN Féin has renewed its call for an Irish passport office to be set up in the North to deal with a significant rise in passport applications. The call comes after the latest figures showed that over 120,000 applications for Irish passports came from people living in Northern Ireland last year. Speaking in the Assembly on Monday, Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew said it was time for a passport office to be established in the North which would reduce backlogs in the application process. “The Department of Foreign Affairs has published figures showing that more than 120,000 passport applications were received from the North last year. That large volume of applications is not a new phenomenon, nor should it surprise anyone in the House,” said the Fermanagh-South Tyrone MLA.

'Significant' settlement for family of Catholic teenager shot dead by British Army

THE family of a Catholic teenager who was shot dead by the British Army in North Belfast 48 years ago have been awarded a ‘significant’ settlement for damages at the High Court. 16-year-old Michael Neill was shot three times on October 24 1977. His family insisted that he posed no threat to the life or safety of the soldier who shot him. An inquest into his death in December 1978 returned an open verdict. A trial in the civil action was due to begin on Monday in Belfast. Counsel for Michael’s sister, Mary Griffin, announced that a settlement had been reached. The family’s solicitor Pádraig Ó Muirigh welcomed the outcome, saying that the settlement was confidential. “As a result of negotiations over the last number of weeks this legal action has now been settled,” he said. “The confidential nature of the settlement prevents me disclosing the terms of the settlement. I can confirm, though, that the settlement is significant and our client is satisfied with the outcome of this litigation.”