While I'm often critical of our political class it's important to remember that, for a brief moment, a group of local politicians put not only their reputations, but also their very lives, on the line for peace WE ARE a people of dates, commemorations, celebrations and anniversaries. Be it the Battle of the Boyne in [...]

t's no coincidence we never heard the term childhood obesity as getting chased by an army snatch squad was guaranteed to knock two stone off the fattest child I’D A rather unusual childhood, which may explain why I got the author of Alice In Wonderland wrong in last week’s column. My thanks to the keen-eyed [...]

YEARS ago, when I was a guest contributor to this paper, one of the first columns I wrote dealt with a Belfast pub owner who decided to decorate the bar to look like a Catholic chapel. He placed statues, and Sacred Heart pictures on its walls and even had a mock altar installed. I noted [...]