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The Sun is out... and so are the street boozers

These are the teenage boozers who have turned West Belfast’s parks into no-go areas – even during daylight hours.

Despite this week’s sunshine families have been avoiding our parks like the plague because of the gangs of young drinkers rampaging through them.

At 3pm on Wednesday afternoon our photographers snapped a crowd of 15 teenagers illegally drinking at the fountain in Dunville Park. The previous evening around 50 people boozed at the same spot late into the night.

Amazingly,

Granny homeless after her caravan

A vicious Traveller feud has left a 55-year-old grandmother homeless. Bridget Mongan’s Monagh Road caravan was torched in a sickening arson attack while she attended a family get-together in Dungannon. The mother of 11 lost everything in the blaze including £700 and items of huge sentimental value. Bridget is now homeless and is being forced to bunk down at her daughter’s crowded home. Argument Yesterday she called on the rival Travellers who burned her caravan to let her

Kidnap teenager thought he would be killed for cash

A young North Belfast boy tied up and beaten in his home home said he feared he would be shot dead by robbers demanding money from his mother's work.

Speaking exclusively to the North Belfast News, young Sean McKee said he just closed his eyes and prayed as two masked men put a gun to his head.

Due to sit his A-Levels next week, the Edmund Rice College pupil has been forced to flee his Ardoyne home after the

Under fire CEP to close

The under-fire Lower North Belfast Community Empowerment Partnership (CEP) has shut for business we can reveal. Director of the organisation Ian Crozier said as of March 31, there was no money to fund staff posts, two of which had been lying vacant for several months. Only a few weeks ago we revealed that the Lower North Belfast CEP had a massive underspend of £348,329. The group was set up in 2003 and in that year they failed to

Irish America boost for Visteon

A TOP union man at the Visteon motor components plant at Finaghy has warmly welcomed the inclusion of the company in an elite index of US companies doing business in the North. Visteon Global Manager Corporate Affairs, Lydia Brennan, was among a number of special guests present at the Wall Street launch of the Irish Echo Index Top 30. “Ford and Visteon have been in West Belfast for over 40 years and we want them to be here for

HOUSE PRICES ARE DOWN 20% IN THE LAST EIGHT WEEKS

House prices in West Belfast have fallen by up to 20 per cent during the last two months. As the credit crunch takes hold and high valuations scare off buyers homeowners are feeling the pinch. A four-bedroom terrace on Beechmout Street has dropped in price from £179,950 to £139,950 in just 61 days – a huge 22 per cent fall. The drop is mirrored at homes on Locan Street and Donegall Avenue – terraced houses that less than three months ago were on