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Coming up for air after breathtaking performance by DUP leader

Sometimes radio can simply suck your breath away – leave you gasping over breakfast or in the car. I had two such moments already today; at this rate I’ll be hyperventilating by tea-time.

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Antrim must keep a keen eye on Dublin hurling development

We now enter a very quiet period in the GAA world but first congratulations have to be given to the Minor hurlers of St John’s and the Under 16 footballers of Rossa as each won the Ulster competitions in their respective codes last weekend.

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Read all about it – late news on the way out

SQUINTER’S not opposed per se to the concept of young women without many clothes on – out on the town in Belfast it wouldn’t take you to be, such is the state of undress in which so many young women venture out the door these days. But when you’re bombarded with such images on the home page of that once decorous organ the Belfast Telegraph, surely it’s time to cry stop.

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Are you part of the union?

THE STRIKING workers had Squinter’s unequivocal support yesterday, even if on the busy ATN press day that support only manifested itself in a couple of beeps of the car horn on the school run.

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Stormount 147 isn’t that common

DURING a radio debate last week ahead of the DUP conference, a caller did what’s called the local politics 147 – he referred to both Stormount and Westminister in the same sentence.

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Lights, camera, inaction: Poverty policy is required

15 minutes of fame beckons for Belfast City Fathers and Mothers tonight (Thursday) when the screening of our monthly meetings goes live – I believe they’ve already branded the show ‘YouTubes’.

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