North Belfast News

Belfast City Council backs motion supporting pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in England

BELFAST City Council has backed a motion supporting pro-Palestine activists on hunger strike in England.

CELTIC STORIES: Has the French Revolution finally begun at Celtic Park?

IT has been quite the week at Celtic Football Club and if ever a measurement was used to gauge how reactionary and fickle football fans can be then just look at the reaction of Celtic supporters in the span of the past seven days.

Soccer: Cliftonville settle for away draw with Bangor

NIFL PremiershipBangor 1Cliftonville 1At Clandeboye Park

Shots fired into house in North Belfast

SHOTS have been fired into a house in North Belfast.

Early signs of a good Christmas for city centre

THE Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Tracy Kelly, has joined with city centre partners to hear about Christmas trading conditions for retailers and hospitality providers, as well as initiatives introduced to support the city’s night-time economy.

Vital holiday health advice is delivered to families

SCHOOLCHILDREN and their parents will be armed with winter health advice during their Christmas break thanks to a joint project by the Education Authority and the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

Ardoyne Youth Club provide practical support for people leaving prison system

PRISONERS leaving Hydebank Wood College will get practical support to begin life on the outside, thanks to the young people from Ardoyne Youth Club.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Loyal Ulster’s Charlie fans have to choose in Israel split

THERE’S a few reasons why unionist politicians – particularly the younger breed – were so incredibly upset by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The first is religious. Kirk foregrounded Gahd in everything he said and did. Whether he was genuinely devout, or whether his overweening religiosity was a confected part of an online persona which made him a very rich youngish man is not altogether clear to me, and now that he’s dead we’ll never know. But what we do know is that Kirk’s unctuous and frequent invocations of his Saviour were incredibly attractive to pro-union elected reps here, to whom the line between religion and politics is either distinctly indistinct or non-existent.

SQUINTER: Portrait photo shatters the illusion

SQUINTER’S not disappointed exactly after having seen for the first time the damage done to the portrait of former DUP Lord Mayor Wallace Browne. Who could be disappointed at a work of art being marred in any way? And he’s not surprised exactly, because, let’s be honest here, a picture being damaged at a party isn’t exactly the strangest thing that’s ever happened in the storied history of our premier public building.

WE SAY: We recognise your type, Mr Benn

IF the hope was that our latest Secretary of State, Hilary Benn, would bring some of his father Tony’s passion for social justice to Stormont Castle, it must be said that most nationalists gave up on that hope some time ago. But the success of Mr Benn today [Wednesday] in ensuring that the truth about the controversial death of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson in April 1994 remains hidden will have rendered disappointment and disgust virtually unanimous.