A man remains in a critical condition in hospital this morning after being subjected to a vicious attack in Ardoyne in the early hours of Sunday morning. The man, understood to be a member of the Travelling community who lives locally, was set upon in Flax Street by a number of persons around 5.25am. The […]
Man remains critical after Ardoyne attack

The odd couple ride again

Centrall Intelligence (12A) Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber Starring: Dwayne Johnson ★★★ What’s the story? IT’S 1996 and Calvin Joyner (Kevin Hart) is the smartest and most talented pupil in high school. Everybody loves Calvin and he looks set to pursue a prosperous life of wealth and success. Bob Stone (Dwayne Johnson), on the other […]
Who fired the shots at Stewartstown village?

Few of the 130 Volunteers who travelled to Coalisland on Easter Saturday 1916 had any inkling about the forthcoming Rising. The Belfast organiser, Denis McCullough, received a message on Good Friday morning from Dr Patrick McCartan asking him to attend a meeting. He immediately set out for Tyrone and reached Carrickmore at lunchtime. There he […]
Dúlra’s feeling so lucky as the majestic jay graces his garden

IT’S a shy, retiring creature with stunning good looks – a bit like Dúlra himself, some would say. And Dúlra feels as lucky as a lottery winner to have the jay grace his garden. He took this photograph at the weekend as the bird simply rested on the wire feeder in the back garden. It’s […]
The common good badly served by Orange Order

WITH the various bloody and sometimes lethal clashes between blacks and whites in the US recently, you may have missed the emergence of another grouping there. It’s an organisation which is liable to add to the problems of an already-divided society. They’re called the Milwaukee Power Maintenance (MPM), and were established in Wisconsin just under […]
July seems so unfair
WHAT does a shared future look like? Does it look like a future where Irish citizens continue to have second class status, second class flags, a second class language? Does it look like a future where our roads continue to be bedecked with union flags and flags depicting various pro-British armed groups – legal and […]