A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man’s body was found in the boot of a car in Lisburn. The body was discovered in the Limehurst Way area, close to Hilden, on Monday afternoon. The victim has been named locally as Gerry Mulligan. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Montgomery said police […]
Man arrested after man’s body found in car in Lisburn
Benevolence? No, thanks…
LAST Friday the new British Secretary of State James Brokenshire said he was thinking about a way forward on the matter of how to deal with the past. He made the speech at Oxford University at a British Irish Association dinner where the great and the good are brought together once a year to […]
Throwback to the past might just refocus unionist minds
WHY did those who voted for the Good Friday Agreement do so? The short answer is we don’t know. Nobody can see inside another person’s head, and even if they tell you their reasons for doing something, they may not be telling the truth. But there are a number of reasons that probably featured […]
Seasons greetings
THOSE are snowflakes on the Kit Kats in the vending machines in the Andytown News kitchen, right? While it’s not exactly Santa with a Robin on his head sitting beside a blazing fire drinking egg-nog, it’s still a symbol of Christmas – Nestlé probably thinking that even for chocolate manufacturers,who make their hay not […]
Start spreading the moos, I’m heaving today
EVERYBODY likes to spread things on their toast. Well, not everbody, exactly. There are people who don’t like toast but do like spreads and there are people who do like toast and don’t like spreads. Ah, dry toast. When Squinter was a boy it was exclusively for people in hospital suffering from stomach complaints or […]
Numbers game should be played to the final whistle
MANY and varied were the words written about BBC Ulster’s poll last week on Irish unity. Personally, Squinter wanted to know whether this was the first time anybody had ever done a poll about whether anybody wanted a poll, but that question must sadly be set aside for later consideration. Predictably, unionists fell on […]