Tag Archives: SDLP

Three RAF Chinook and two Irish Air Corps helicopters being used to drop in food supplies on Thursday

OFFICIALS will be using four helicopters to deliver emergency food parcels to stranded farmers and their livestocks on Thursday. Two helicopters from the Irish Air Corps … more


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The van at the scene of the mortar bomb find in Derry

AN UNDERCOVER security force operation has foiled a major dissident republican mortar bomb attack in Derry/Londonderry. Four live and primed mortars were uncovered and three … more


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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed in Commons

  MPs have approved legislation for same-sex marriage in England and Wales. The vote on the Marriage (Sames Sex Couples) Bill was passed on Tuesday … more


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Meeting at Belfast City Hall on Monday voted in rates freeze

BELFAST City Council approved on Monday evening an historic district rates freeze. It is believed to be the first time in living memory such a motion has been voted … more


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MP Margaret Ritchie knew 88-year-old road crash victim

POLICE have launched an investigation after an 88-year-old man died after he was knocked down by a van in Co Down. The crash happened in Crossgar’s … more


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Union flag flies from the Belfast City Hall

JUST over five weeks after it was taken down, the Union flag was flying once again over Belfast City Hall on Wednesday. It is to … more


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Police seal inner courtyard of Belfast City Hall

BELFAST CITY Council holds its first full meeting on Monday evening since it voted to only fly the Union flag on designated days. Union flag protestors … more


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Belfast

IT took a ‘trunk’ phone call from SDLP MLA Alex Attwood to save Belfast’s oldest tree from government ‘axe men’. Residents in Glastonbury Avenue, north Belfast almost had … more


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The Union flag use to fly on Belfast City Hall

ROUND TABLE talks aimed at trying to resolve the dispute over the Union flag have been adjourned until the New Year. The leaders of the … more


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A MAN is recovering in hospital after being shot in both legs following a two-man ambush in west Belfast. The 37-year-old man was out walking in … more


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