POLICE have released the image of a person they wish to speak to in connection with public disorder in the York Street area of North Belfast on June 9.
Team Ireland secured two big wins over team America in two Bridges Beyond Boxing events in Buffalo and Boston. The away squad wasted no time in getting down to business with practice sessions getting underway a matter of hours after touching down stateside. Yes they were there to build relations across the Atlantic and to experience a new culture but ultimately this team of experienced and competitive amateurs wanted to showcase their talents on the big stage.
ST Dominic’s Senior Camogs and Ladies’ Footballers are heading to Madrid on Friday with the aim of promoting our national games on an international stage.
IT'S remarkable how many people I speak to who have no idea that Ulster Resistance weapons are still swirling around out there. There’s a sort of vague sense that the armed wing of the DUP was somehow part of the exhausting decommissioning process of the early noughties and that the massive arms shipment brought in from Lebanon in 1988 was covered in concrete or dropped into Beaufort’s Dyke from a squadron of Chinooks.
IT’S no surprise that our ancestors were intoxicated by the idea of midsummer. So intoxicated that they built a temple to it at Brú na Bóinne in County Meath, a place that is now one of the wonders of the world.
THE bulletholes from the August 1969 sectarian pogrom against the people of the Falls area are still visible on the front wall of St Comgall’s Primary School, Divis Street. Last Thursday lunchtime, a few yards from where whole terraces of houses were burned out, scores of community activists from across Belfast came together in Ionad Eileen Howell to discuss another pogrom. This time the pogrom was rooted in violent racism.
