North Belfast News

Ardoyne residents' group rubbish DUP MLA's comments on Orange Order talks

An Ardoyne residents’ group has rubbished claims by a DUP MLA that it was involved in talks with the Orange Order to facilitate parades through the district. The claim was made by North Belfast MLA Philip Brett on BBC Radio Ulster’s Talk Back programme. Between 2016 and 2024 the Parades Commission ruled that the July 12 return parade could not pass Ardoyne Shops. During the interview Mr Brett claimed that after “discussions between the Orange Order and resident and Political representatives” that for the past two years return parades have taken place on July 13. “That was a result of dialogue, discussion and compromise,” he added. Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association rubbished the claims. In a statement the group said: “For the record, CARA made it clear to the Parades Commission that we are against any such return parades and specifically the parades on 13thJuly 2025 and 14th July 2026. “In spite of this, the Parades Commission chose to allow the Orange Order to parade up the Crumlin Road between the Nationalist areas of Mountainview and Ardoyne.

Plan ahead: Translink ready to welcome pupils back to school

TRANSLINK is encouraging pupils and parents to plan ahead and check travel arrangements as school services return from Tuesday 1st September.

EYE ON THE PAST: August 1985 – Church to sell land for 100 homes on Shaws Road

We look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week back in 1985...

PLATING UP: Stuffed calamari tubes with curried orzo rice

We hope you enjoy our cookery column with chef Paul Watters who each week will take the fear out of cooking with his easy to follow recipes...

SQUINTER: When did the DUP wash its hands of Ulster Resistance?

SQUINTER got asked on the radio last week to talk about Ulster Resistance and the DUP. He had assumed – perhaps naively – that the basis of the conversation would be firmly in place before he put the headphones on. That uncontested basis being that Ulster Resistance was founded in November 1986 by the DUP at a star-studded event at the Ulster Hall, during which senior members of the party donned red berets and paraded alongside notorious paramilitaries and gunrunners carrying swagger sticks in a none-too-subtle attempt to frighten the Brits away from the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Gerry Adams: County Mayo pays tribute to the hunger strikers

THIS Sunday the National Hunger Strike Commemoration will commence at 2.30pm in Ballina, County Mayo. The event will mark 45 years since the 1981 hunger strike in which ten men died. It will also remember all of those Irish republicans who died on hunger strike and especially the resolve and courage of three Mayo hunger strikers. Michael Gaughan (1974); Frank Stagg (1976); and Jack McNeela (1940).

Health unions hold protests over proposed health and social care cuts

TRADE unions have held protests on Thursday morning in response to proposed cuts to health and social care trusts in the North.

HEALTHWISE: Take steps to reduce the cancer risk in your food

CANCER is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly ten million each year. The most common causes are lung, breast, colon, rectum and prostate cancers.

DÚLRA: A little gratitude would go a long way at the lough

YOU don’t have to look too far to identify the root cause of the tragedy to befall Lough Neagh – it lies across the Irish Sea. Rules that date from colonial times that we thought we had consigned to the dustbin of history mean that the lough is in effect owned by an absentee English landlord.