AS Squinter’s oul’ lad might have said: ‘That’s not parked, that’s abandoned.” A mid-afternoon drive through sunny Glengormley reveals quite possibly the most hilarious piece of parking Squinter has ever encountered. This white BMW XWhatever, right, is hemming in two cars and restricting left turns from the side road on to the main Antrim […]
Archive | September, 2016
Reginald Molehusband visits Glengormley
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The taste of Ulster’s past
HERE’S a packet of Tayto vegetable roll flavour potato crisps. Note the presence of the word ‘flavour’ in there. They’re required to put that in there because there’s no actual vegetable roll in the crisps – just potatoes; they don’t smear the raw potatoes with minced pork and flecks of green stuff and deep-fry […]
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Getting hung up on nationality
It’s funny the things that set our blood simmering. I was online the other day, trying to enter for the Dublin Half-Marathon next month. I got to a Required slot that demanded “Nationality”. Nothing wrong with that, except that it wouldn’t let me write “Irish”. I had to choose from a long list on […]
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Ignoring the women of ’81
I WENT to see 66 Days – a couple of weeks later than everybody else. Well, not everybody actually. We went on Tuesday night to the Kennedy Centre to see it and it was sold out half an hour before it was due to screen. So we hightailed it to Yorkgate to watch it […]
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More students receive their Aisling Bursaries
STUDENTS and business donors in West Belfast have been warmly congratulated by Education Minister Peter Weir at the 17th annual Aisling Bursaries presentations. Hosted by the West Belfast Partnership Board on Tuesday night in St Mary’s University College, the DUP man paid tribute to the businesses, organisations and local individuals who provide sponsorship for the […]
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HARRY HOLLAND’S KILLER READY TO GET HOME VISITS
THE daughter of murdered West Belfast greengrocer Harry Holland has spoken of the family’s anguish on learning that the man who savagely murdered their dad is soon to be allowed home visits. In 2009, 18-year-old Stephen McKee from Ballymurphy Road was given 12 years for murder after he stabbed Harry in the head with a […]
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