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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.
Casement Park (Irish: Páirc Mhic Asmaint) [4] [5] is the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is located in Andersonstown Road in the west of the city, and is named after the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement. The stadium, which has been closed since June 2013, [3] previously had a capacity of approximately 31,500. [1]
28 September: a RUC officer (Alexander Beck) was killed in an IRA rocket attack on a British patrol on Glen Road, Andersonstown, Belfast. [9] 3 October: the hunger strike was called off, due to pressure from the remaining strikers' families who made it clear they would seek medical intervention to save their sons' lives. [9]
16 February: the INLA fired shots at British soldiers on the Falls Road, Belfast. [72] 17 February: the INLA fired nearly fifty shots at a joint RUC-British Army mobile patrol in an ambush on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast. The leading RUC Land-Rover received fourteen rounds, bursting two tyres and nearly causing the driver to lose control.
23 January: the LVF shot dead Catholic construction worker Liam Conway (39) as he operated a digger on Hesketh Road, Belfast. [43] 24 January: the LVF shot dead Catholic taxi driver John McColgan (33) in Belfast. He had picked up a number of men on the Andersonstown Road, who told him to drive to Upper Glen Road.
Antrim Road, Belfast: Woodvale Road, Belfast: Became a portion of the A52 in the mid-1920s. B501: A55 North Circular Road, Belfast: A2, junction of York Road and York Street, Belfast: Cavehill Road/Limestone Road B502: A55 Ballysillan Road, Belfast: A501, junction of Falls Road and Divis Street, Belfast: Oldpark Road/Agnes Street/Northumberland ...
The two soldiers were placed in a taxi and driven around to a waste ground near Penny Lane (South Link), just 200 yd (180 m) off the main Andersonstown Road. There they were taken out of the vehicle and shot dead. Wood was shot six times: twice in the head and four times in the chest. He had also been stabbed four times in the back of the neck.
Euronics International Ltd. is an international association of over 11,000 [1] independent electrical retailers in 37 countries. [2] It functions as a leading international electrical retail group [ 1 ] on behalf of its members, and is based in Amsterdam .