Few of us associate Glengormley with poetry. Seamus Heaney used one word to describe the place: bleak. Padraic Fiacc lived in Glengormley
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Immortalised in poetry but not by the poets
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Whatever happened to tea and scones?
FOR TEN or fifteen minutes between 10.30am and 11am every morning building sites all over Ireland
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Glass act more of a triumph than a trick
SQUINTER has no time for magicians and tricks – he thinks it was Paul Daniels who put him off them some time in the 1980s
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL FEAR AND LOATHING
SUMMER’S last breath brings a chill to the Tuesday morning air, while lines of immaculately-turned-out youngsters
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Caterpillar butterfly stings like a bee
IT’S BAKING hot here in America. Expect, therefore, the price of your Weetabix to soar next year because in the mid
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A moment to remember and to reflect
RECENTLY I spent a short time, along with scores of other republicans, remembering and celebrating the life and courage of IRA Volunteer Joe McDonnell
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