John Kelly is angry. His brother Michael was killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry and he’s now heard that a commemorative stone is to be erected in Westminster Abbey to the late Ted Heath, prime minister at the time.
Archive | April, 2012
No surprise that Heath is a British hero
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Graduates tipped to take the honours
GRADUATES are poised to complete netball’s NI league and cup double when they face Larkfield on Saturday in the sport’s domestic showpiece at Lisburn Racquets (2.45pm).
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Get Carter to play poet
Poet and musician Gerard McLaughlin, who lives in the Malone area, produces works which he describes as ‘not poetry but more a case of experiences, feelings and life’. Gerard recently joined celebrated poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger at an event marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic.
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How the suffering of children bridges the generations
If a book can be a lifeline then the greatest book about addiction and its crushing effect on families must be Breaking Night, an unforgettable memoir of life in a Bronx home where both parents are hopeless crack addicts.
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Colts celebrate their first senior title
IN just their second season in senior football, Carryduff Colts claimed the Newcastle League Division Two title on Saturday with a superb 7-1 win over Rathfriland Rangers.
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Collective amnesia on shipyard history should not consign us to living in past
In a major report from Belfast this week to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, the New York Times suggested the citizens of Belfast were suffering from “collective amnesia” regarding the exclusion of Catholics from the Belfast shipyards of old.
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