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Small Community, Big Heart

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This is a kids/community/mental-health mural on the sub-station in Edgarstown. The art was painted by young people from the area, organised by Edgarstown Residents’ Association in the summer of 2024 (Fb).

For more images of the Rangers mural, see Red Hand, Red Lion from 2024.

Also included is a pair of boards of the fence around Hayes Park. For close-ups (of an identical board a stone’s throw away), see In Deo Speramus.

Union Street, Edgarstown, Portadown

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Divis Youth

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This mural in the lower Falls celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Frank Gillen Centre (Fb) and the 70th anniversary of Immaculata FC (Fb). The figure on the right is Cliftonville player Liam Boyce who grew up in the area and played for Immaculata as a youth. The team’s logo appears to the right of Boyce’s outstretched hand. (If you know the local player on the left, please leave a comment or send an e-mail.)

The piece was painted by Mickey Doherty and Lucas Quigley.

Albert Street, lower Falls, west Belfast

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Gort Na Móna Abú

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Gort Na Móna CLG was founded in 1974, developing out of the old Gort Na Móna secondary (before it became part of Corpus Christi). NVTv produced a programme to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary (youtube). These painted junction boxes are on Monagh Road and the Springfield Road.

See also Lóıste Na Móna | Ag Croí An Phobaıl | Gort Na Móna.

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Pride Of Lower Falls

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This is a painted tribute to Jim McKee, who was known as “Mr Immaculata” for his long-time support of Immaculata FC (Fb). McKee died in August when he was hit by a car near the Grosvenor community centre (BBC).

See also: Come On, The Mac, which is a stone’s throw further down Albert Street.

Servia Street, lower Falls, west Belfast

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Newington Football Club

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“NFC – representing our community with pride”. Newington Football Club [Fb], also known as “the swans”, is an NIFL team from north Belfast. The club was “est[ablished] 1979” as Jubilee Olympic FC, and was later Newington Youth Club, before becoming Newington FC c. 2018. A full list of its honours can be found on the club’s WP page.

Atlantic Avenue, Newington, north Belfast

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Clann Éıreann

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“Forward together. 5 steps to wellbeing: Give, take notice, be active, keep learning, connect.” These murals are in the northern stands at Clann Éıreann CLG (web) in Kilwilkie, Lurgan. The club also has handball facilities, a youth club, and a social club on Lake Street.

Deramore Drive, Lurgan

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The Croc

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“The lad from Sandy Row – Lewis (The Croc) Crocker, IBF welterweight champion 2025.”

Sandy Row native (Belfast CC) Lewis Crocker beat Paddy Donovan in a fight for the open IBF welterweight title at Windsor Park in September (BBC).

Donegall Road, south Belfast, at the top of Roden Street.

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Radiate Positivity

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Armagh won the All-Ireland Senior football championship in 2024, with a squad that included three players from Crossmaglen: Oısín O’Neill, Cıan McConville, and Rían O’Neill.

In the bottom-left corner, players from Crossmaglen Rangers turn to face the Irish tricolour, flanked by the club flag and the flag of Palestine – the flags fly below the watchtower of a British Army barracks (perhaps based on an image from the 2005 Armagh final – Irish Times).

On the right is an umbrella in pride colours, below which people can pose and take pictures: “Snap & tag us”.

This is a revised version of the mural, which originally bore the Ernesto Cardenal quote, “They tried to bury you/us but they didn’t know you/we were seeds” (ig).

On the side of KIS pizza- and coffee-shop, The Square, Crossmaglen. “The community wall” @kis_pizza_coffee @careforcaolan” [Caolan Finnegan, who died in August, 2024] @Nıamh_Ní_Dhalaıgh_Art July 2024″

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Village Team On Tour

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“Loyalist Village, south Belfast – Village team on tour.” This is a new printed board at the eastern edge of the Village in south Belfast. The association with the Northern Ireland soccer team (governed by the Irish Football Association) is perhaps an attempt to rehabilitate the name from the graffiti that appeared in 2015 (Welcome To Hell) and 2016 (Taigs Will Be Dealt With).

There is a “Linfield” version of this board, in red, white, and blue, in Tavanagh Street.

The/An “I am not an Ulsterman …” board was originally in Kilburn Street – see the Seosamh Mac Coılle Collection.

For the Linfield/Northern Ireland mural in better days, see For Club And Country.

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Alex McDonald Loyal

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The new Rangers supporters club in Donegall Pass is named after Alex “Doddie” MacDonald, who played midfield for Rangers from 1968 to 1980, which included the team’s victory in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup in 1972. (A full biography can be found on the Rangers web site.)

The new board announces the “Alex MacDonald Loyal RSC (Donegall Pass)” and the photographs show various high-points in MacDonald’s career: “Signed for Rangers 19 November 1968”, “Hampden Park on 25 October 1975 when MacDonald scored the winner in the Old Firm League Cup final”, “Rangers hall of fame”.

Also included beneath the main board are the crests of “Southbank True Blues” and “Kirkintilloch RSC” (Fb).

Pine Street, Donegall Pass, south Belfast. Launched on September 13th – Facebook.

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