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The Belfast Media Group's Andersonstown News is a weekly published (Wednesdays) Belfast, Northern Ireland newspaper, which focuses on news and issues in west Belfast. The paper was founded in 1972. [ 1] Its stablemates, the North Belfast News and South Belfast News, are published weekly. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the ...
Andersonstown, known colloquially as Andytown, is a suburb of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the foot of the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain. It contains a mixture of public and private housing and is largely a working-class area with a strong Irish nationalist and Irish Catholic tradition.
1976 Andersonstown incident. / 54.56967°N 5.99017°W / 54.56967; -5.99017. The 1976 Andersonstown incident or the 1976 Andersonstown-Finaghy incident, was a brief altercation between members of the Provisional IRA and the British Army, in Andersonstown and North Finaghy, in August 1976. Which resulted in the deaths of 3 children who ...
More than 1,000 anti-racism protesters gathered at Belfast City Hall on Friday to oppose an anti-immigration protest at the same location. About 200 people gathered for it and police land rovers ...
August 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM. Around a thousand people gathered in Belfast for a counter-protest against several hundred anti-immigration demonstrators on Friday evening. A heavy police presence and ...
From 6 to 11 July 1997 there were mass protests, fierce riots and gun battles in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland. Irish nationalists/ republicans, in some cases supported by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and British Army. The protests and violence were sparked by the ...
Jonathan McCambridge, PA. August 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM. Police believe that more violence linked to planned anti-immigration protests is likely in Belfast in the coming days, a court has heard. A ...
Joe Graham was the eighth of twelve children born to Jim and Kitty Graham. He was raised in what was then the newly built Ballymurphy housing estate in the west of the city. He attended St. John's Public Elementary School and later St. Thomas's Secondary Intermediate School. One of his teachers was Michael McLaverty, who himself wrote stories ...