A Dog's dinner no more

MAD dog Johnny Adair's old stomping ground is undergoing a clean- up.

The project, designed to restore a sense of normalisation to the lower Shankill area of west Belfast, got under way last week.

Community worker Denis Cunningham said: "The people who live here asked for a sense of normalisation. From that point of view anything we do will be community orientated."

Volunteers have already taken down old and tattered flags from the area. and three loyalist arches have also been dismantled and removed.

Both moves took place with the approval of local residents and was organised by Lower Shankill Community Association.

It is understood a specific number of the loyalist murals will also be removed.

Mr Cunningham also confirmed that the community centre, known as the 'Big Brother House' in Boundary Way, was up and running again.

It had been command- eered by Adair and his cohorts.

"The building is for the benefit of the whole community and is now being used as originally planned," Mr Cunning- ham said.

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