WEEKEND RACING We start with the weekend racing and first port of call is Goodwood for the Group 2 Doom Bar Celebration Mile and a classy looking field go to post for this one. The improving Michael Stoute trained Thikriyaat is the 7/4 favourite with Sean Graham and has been beaten only once in four starts […]
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Get set for some Celebration with Thikriyaat
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The peril of clean windows
It’s a photograph so tragic that would drive Dúlra to tears. It’s of one of Ireland’s most beautiful birds, lying limp and lifeless in a human hand. The sparkle of life that a bullfinch carries with it with such aplomb is suddenly absent. This bird may have those same impressive feathers with their deeply […]
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Churchill death the spark for Casement reinterment
Operation Hopenot was many years in the planning. This was the name given to the planned state funeral of Winston Churchill. When the 90-year-old former leader died on January 24, 1965 Operation Hopenot swung into operation. Six days later after a three-day lying-in-state in the Palace of Westminster, the funeral took place in St […]
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Reassuring words at Féile from a champion of justice
I WAS at the P J McGrory Memorial Lecture in St Mary’s University College on Friday last, given by the distinguished English barrister Michael Mansfield. It was the first time I’d seen in the flesh this man whose legal work has woven in and out through the history of the Troubles. He has represented […]
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Brexit threat
BREXIT has posed all kinds of challenges for our present and our future. Every single sectoral interest is likely to be affected to one extent or another. For victims and survivors the impact on their circumstances as victims is perhaps not immediately obvious. However, as we enter into a phase likely to deliver, at […]
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Belfast man Robinson: the real hero of Soleheadbeg
On Easter Saturday 1916 the Belfast Volunteers travelled to Coalisland to link up with the Tyrone contingent. Daniel Braniff, a native of Dromara now domiciled in Belfast, expected to travel to Coalisland on the Saturday. However, he received orders from Denis McCullough to stay in Belfast. Braniff had spent several years in Scotland actively […]
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