BBC News (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
A gang tries to force a County Antrim man to get cash from his workplace in Belfast city centre, police say.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Engineering company FG Wilson is to make 160 staff redundant at its plants in County Antrim and Belfast.
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
A North Belfast man caught up in the anti-government protests in Thailand last week has spoken exclusively to the North Belfast News about his frantic negotiations with the protesters which eventually led to his escape from the country. Antrim Road man Dermuid McAnoy was due to fly back from Bangkok airport with his girlfriend Pauline Simpson last Wednesday after a three week holiday of South East...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Belfast Media 28 Nov 2008 Local history expert and North Belfast News columnist Joe Baker held a hugely successful three-day exhibition about war-torn Belfast in the 1940s in the Freemason's city centre headquarters last week . Formally opened by Freemason and former District Grand King of Antrim 102-year old, Cyril Quigley, the exhibition offered history enthusiasts the chance to discover more about...
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
I think I vaguely recall something about this story from last year: A DUP politician sitting on an Assembly body responsible for scrutinising social security payments is due to appear at Belfast Magistrate’s Court today charged with benefit fraud. East Antrim MLA David Hilditch, who is vice chair of the Stormont Social Development Committee and also sits on the Assembly’s Standards Committee,
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Four times more people will die under the age of 75 in working class areas like Ardoyne than in more affluent stretches of the Antrim Road such as Fortwilliam. This and other shocking statistics contained in a report produced by Belfast Healthy Cities, highlight the direct link between wealth and health and shows North Belfast as having the worst mortality rate in the city. The Divided by Health report...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
BBC 13 Nov 2008 Police have said a pipe bomb that exploded beside a car in north Belfast could have caused serious injury if it had gone off at a busier time. The device exploded on the Antrim Road, close to the junction with Dawson Street, in the New Lodge area at about 0030 GMT on Thursday. The pipe bomb exploded on Dawson Street in the New Lodge area. There was no one in the car at the time and...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
A North Belfast grandfather whose home was gutted by a fire that killed his two pet dogs and which has left him and his wife facing homelessness in the run up to Christmas, said he is devastated by the loss of his beloved pets and the family home. David Park's Antrim Road home was completely destroyed by a fire that swept through the building on Tuesday evening. Although neither David nor his wife...
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.
The Offside (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
This is not good. The long-running sectarian rivalry between Belfast teams Linfield and Cliftonville took a nasty turn last night when Linfield’s Conor Hagan was hit by a firework launched from the crowd at Windsor Park. The final whistle of the County Antrim Shield final had just gone with Cliftonville winning 2-1, when Hagan was struck [...]
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A Linfield player was hit by a firework launched by Cliftonville fans moments after the whistle was blown at the end of the County Antrim Shield final in Northern Ireland last night.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
A Linfield player was hit by a firework launched by Cliftonville fans moments after the whistle was blown at the end of the County Antrim Shield final in Northern Ireland last night.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
A Linfield player is struck by a firework at the end of the County Antrim Shield final at Windsor Park in Belfast.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Cavan Gaels (Cavan) 1-07 St. Gall's (Antrim) 0-07, Casement Park Michael Lyng's first half goal for Cavan Gaels was the difference between these sides in a heated affair at Casement Park in Belfast.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Last night I attended the inaugural Slugger Political Awards at W5 in Belfast’s Odyssey complex. Three Thousand Versts had been nominated as one of the three contenders in the Political Blogger category . In the end the honour went to North Antrim Local Interest List , which satisfied very neatly the criterion Mick Fealty ascribed to any potential winner in the award’s accompanying film. NALIL doggedly...
