It must be hard for journalists to follow all the wars going on now. Because in these wars today’s enemy may be yesterday’s friend and you’d hardly know who was fighting whom and for what. A government arming and training the Kurds in one country, while refusing to help them in another across the border, […]
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From Hardinge to Street Park Lodge
The Christian Brothers were a great organisation for planning ahead. In the late 1950s they looked at the growth of the Catholic population in Belfast. They were aware that the Redemptorist Order had purchased Ben Eadan, the large estate of Major Addley, and had built St Gerard’s church, with the official opening by Dr Mageean, […]
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Top Gear’s bottom marks for figures
REGULAR readers of this column will know that Squinter enjoys the occasional punt, so the vagaries of chance are a subject that is of some interest to him. Normally it’s the chances on a Saturday afternoon of this team beating that team, or this nag outrunning that nag. But this week he’s been considering the […]
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The numbers game
PICK a number – any number… That’s normally the line of a TV magician about to pull off a card trick, but in the wake of this week’s Belfast Telegraph poll on the issue of a border referendum, it’s been the number crunchers and analysts in the newspapers and on the airwaves who have been zeroing […]
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Axing camouflages real target
Under Dr Maguire’s approach and restructuring of historic investigations, post-Al Hutchinson, the Office of the Police Ombudsman now enjoys the confidence of families. That’s a fact reinforced by this week’s CJINI report underlining a best practice approach. This is in stark contrast to the discredited PSNI’s Historic Enquiries Team (HET) that continues to deny families […]
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Meeting goes downhill very quickly
THERE’S a car half-blocking the entrance to the Andytown News. It’s a black Fiesta with a southern registration and there’s nobody in it. Squinter immediately thinks ‘car bomb’, which kind of dates him. Then he remembers it’s 2014 and he thinks ‘stolen’. But no. Along come a couple, one a middle-aged jogger in running gear […]
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