Sad home coming for Mary and Billy IT was a sad Christmas for Mary and Billy Kennedy despite their release from internment on Christmas Eve. For the Kennedys – parents of seven children – found their maisonette home in Divis Flats in ruins when they returned to it just hours before Christmas. Ceilings and walls […]
Archive | January, 2019
EYE ON THE PAST: January 4 & 11, 1975
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John could be your new country voice of Ireland
THE ever-talented West Belfast musician John Rafferty will battle it out on TG4’s Glór Tíre talent show in the coming weeks as he looks to become Ireland’s next big country music star. Industry heavyweights reviewed video performances from singers across the country in the search and have narrowed it down to a final six. Whiterock […]
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Pic of the day, Friday, January 11
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Takeover of SDLP won’t be all plain sailing for Micheál
NEWS that the SDLP is on the cusp of hooking up with Fianna Fáil hasn’t half spooked the horses. The problem’s not so much that the Stoops are flailing around to find a way to stave off their demise – that’s just common sense – the problem is that nobody outside a tiny cabal at […]
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Spotting enemies of the people
NEW Year files being declassified feel a lot less like history. This year it was disconcerting to read disclosure of NIO briefings from 1990 refer to friends and colleagues being named along with their organisations. The Committee on the Administration of Justice was the subject of one of the documents, a document we know was […]
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It could pay to back the Boks in Japan
World rankings are a funny thing. Apparently, Belgium are the top-rated team in world football, ahead of Brazil and the actual world champions France writes our rugby tipster Paddy Tierney. In golf, Englishman Justin Rose moved to world number one ahead of the US Masters despite his one and only major victory coming at the […]
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