Conor McParland joined Belfast Media in the summer of 2014 working as a freelance journalist at the sportsdesk and later the Andersonstown News as a reporter. Since May 2016, he works as a news journalist for the North Belfast News and contributes weekly to both the Andersonstown News and South Belfast News.
THERE are currently no plans for schools to close on Tuesday due to Storm Chandra.
IRISH language rappers Kneecap has been announced as the headline act for the AVA Festival in Belfast.
POLICE are appealing for witnesses and information following a road traffic collision involving a pedestrian and a car in North Belfast on Monday morning.
FOOTPRINTS Women's Centre in Poleglass has announced an ambitious £1 million funding project to deliver gender-responsive climate action across Northern Ireland over the next five years.
THE music department at St Louise’s Comprehensive College in West Belfast has got off to a pitch-perfect start in 2026, thanks to a £25,000 grant to purchase a suite of new musical instruments.
THE community of St Mary’s on the Hill Primary School in Glengormley have come together to celebrate a significant milestone in the school's long and distinguished history.
THE work of renowned artist and designer Sara O’Neill has been featured in countless glossy magazines, on red carpets, major billboard and television campaigns, book and album covers and exhibited worldwide over the past 20 years.
RARE personal artefacts from James Connolly's life have been added to his exhibition at Áras Uí Chonghaile.
WEST Belfast MLA Órlaithí Flynn has welcomed the launch of a new cross-party inquiry into the funding of suicide prevention measures in the north.
THE 'Fenian' advertising campaign that had all of Belfast talking yesterday has now spread to London. Yesterday we reported that a van was driving around Belfast with the slogan ‘Report Fenian Activity’ on its side and rear. Readers spotted the van on the Falls Road and Belfast city centre on Thursday afternoon. It's widely believed the van is connected to Belfast rappers Kneecap, who have a new album coming out, but we've not been able to confirm that. Now a reader in London has sent us this photo of an ad pasted on to a hoarding in the English capital in the same font, style and colour as the Belfast advertising van, emblazoned with the word 'FENIAN' above a satirical dictionary definition. Defining the modern term for the word, it reads: "Member of a secret socialist society of sound c**ts active globally' and adds: "A derogatory term for an Irish nationalist – 'You Fenian c**t.'"
Conor McParland and Robin Livingstone are two Andersonstown News journalists at opposite ends of their careers. Together they visited the new St Comgall's conflict exhibition to find out how the past speaks to those who lived it – and those who are learning it...
THERE have been 27 missed bin collections in Ashley Park in Dunmurry over the last two years.
SDLP councillor Paul Doherty has welcomed a commitment from the Department for Infrastructure to tackle flooding issues on the Andersonstown Road.
LOCAL Sinn Féin representatives are calling for urgent action to tackle persistent flooding problems affecting communities across West Belfast with residents continuing to experience flooding during periods of heavy rainfall.
A COMMEMORATION was held in the New Lodge on Saturday evening to remember two people killed in loyalist attack on a local bar 50 years ago.