Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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. The district is sometimes colloquially referred ...
September 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM. The incident took place at the Park Centre in Belfast [BBC] A woman who “snatched” a one-year-old at a west Belfast shopping centre has been given a two-year ...
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 ...
In West Belfast, a car bomb exploded outside shops on the Andersonstown Road. The car had been left by three men wearing dark glasses and carrying walkie-talkies. Sinn Féin members helped clear the area and claimed that the RUC took almost an hour to answer a call from a member of the public.
The Falls Road (from Irish túath na bhFál 'territory of the enclosures' [ 1 ]) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. The name has been synonymous for at least a century and a half with the Catholic community in the city.
Shaw's Road Gaeltacht. Located on the road, is a small Gaeltacht (Irish -speaking area) known colloquially as "The Irish Houses", and in Irish as Bóthar Seoighe (meaning "Shaw's Road") and Pobal Feirste (meaning "Farset Community"). [1] This community was established in 1969 when five families from Belfast built their houses together in a new ...
History. The school was opened by the Sisters of St. Louis on 1 September 1966. On opening, the school had 550 pupils and 26 teachers. The principal was Sr. Mona Lally. [2] Although it is no longer governed by the nuns, the educational philosophy of the school continues to be based on that of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Louis.
17 February: the INLA fired nearly fifty shots at a joint RUC-British Army mobile patrol in an ambush on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast. The leading RUC Land-Rover received fourteen rounds, bursting two tyres and nearly causing the driver to lose control. Seven shots hit a parked civilian car but the occupants were uninjured. [72]