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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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Pic of the day, Monday January 7

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Family of Jim Donegan ask for ‘no retaliation’ as funeral takes place in West Belfast

THE family of Jim ‘JD’ Donegan have called for “no retaliation, only justice” as the Requiem Mass of the murdered 43-year-old took place in St John’s Church on the Falls Road this morning. Mr Donegan was shot and killed as he waited to pick up his son from St Mary’s Grammar School on the Glen […]

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Pic of the Day, December 4

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Take a topsy turvy trip to Wonderland at the Lyric this Christmas

THE story of Alice and how she fell into Wonderland is one that has been enchanting generations and as the Lyric Theatre prepares to bring the curtain down on its 50th birthday celebrations this year it’s Alice: The Musical which is set to entertain Christmas audiences. The stage is set with our first sighting of […]

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