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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 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 ...
On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings . Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
A senior Police Service of Northern Ireland officer earlier this week said a paramilitary element is suspected of co-ordinating violence in Belfast. On Monday, four men linked to disorder on ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a timeline of actions by the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA or OIRA), an Irish republican & Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group. Most of these actions took place as part of a Guerrilla campaign against the British Army & Royal Ulster Constabulary and internal Irish Republican feuds with the Provisional IRA & Irish National Liberation Army from the early 1970s - to the mid ...
The Stag Inn was a Protestant-owned Hotel & Bar. The attack took place on a Saturday at 8:00 pm on 30 July 1976 in the Stag Inn, just off Milltown Road, in Belvoir Park Forest a more affluent area in south Belfast. A car with at least 3 IRA/RAF men pulled up outside in a car that was hijacked earlier on in the day, one of the gunmen jumped out ...