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A businessman caught on camera threatening to kill death driver Martin Olali Jnr has denied having anything to do with the hated criminal’s house being shot up. Sean Murphy was recorded telling the thug in a clip that’s gone viral, “I’ll...
Arlo Kilpatrick was handed a probation order at Laganside Magistrates Court in Belfast, having earlier been convicted of sending threatening communications. The court heard the 22-year-old had developed an interest in ‘looksmaxxing’, an...
The 17-year-old from Lislea rounded off a series of fleadh shows with a performance on the Gig Rig at Belfast City Hall last Sunday night, watched by thousands of spectators. During her performance, Niamh, who reached the semi-finals of...
Jailed UVF gunrunner Winkie Irvine is trying to plot a way back to the top of the terror gang. However, other loyalist leaders on his Shankill Road stomping ground are opposed to Irvine’s return. Loyalist sources told Sunday Life that...
The 17-year-old from Lislea rounded off a series of fleadh shows with a performance on the Gig Rig at Belfast City Hall last Sunday night, watched by thousands of spectators. During her performance, Niamh, who reached the semi-finals of...
It’s long been a hotbed of political, religious and cultural division, fuelled by rows over everything from British flags to the Irish language, but Belfast City Hall was the beating heart of rarely seen unity during the fleadh. Hundreds of...
Decades earlier, I used to stand on my own at the same place and the same time, listening to lunacy. That was the sound of bombs exploding — not infrequently — in Belfast as I waited for a lift from my father after a night out with a girlfriend.