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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.
In many quarters, there will be a warm welcome to this week’s announcement by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to set up a Regional Obesity Management Service (ROMS). The community-based service will ...
It’s not an original thought to observe that many people in Northern Ireland are still obsessed – haunted even – by the traumatic experiences of the ‘Troubles’. 27 years after the coming of relative ...
John Manley, writing in today’s Irish News (the article is paywalled but if you are subscribed it is a recommended read) reports that former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood urged greater nationalist ...
Adam Curtis is this brilliantly oddball British documentary maker who’s made a name for himself by stitching together weird archive footage, moody music, and these sweeping, hypnotic voiceovers that ...
I remember being shocked at some of the responses to this post a few years ago – Schooldays, the most miserable days of your life?. The comments section turned into a kind of group therapy session, ...
Belfast-based litigation and media lawyer Olivia O’Kane said that with a case such as that taken by Mr Adams, “even getting to the door of the court alone could cost parties hundreds of thousands”.
The Kneecap controversy from a few weeks ago (which generated these two posts by Brian and Choyaa respectively if you need a refresher) may have slipped from the headlines, but the police ...
The older I get, the more my inner Presbyterian asserts itself — and nowhere more so than in my loathing of gambling.Of all the addictions, gambling might just be the most ruinous. You can drink ...
The principles underpinning gravity are fairly easy to grasp. The more massive something is, the greater the pull it has on objects within its proximity. The bigger the object, the greater the pull, ...
My buddy and I were in the gallery waiting for AC/DC to take the stage. When the big moment came we were hit with an absolute blast bomb of sound. Angus and the lads were SO loud that our stomachs ...
The recent BBC Panorama programme “Special Forces – I Saw War Crimes” was quite shocking, but to many here in the North, totally unsurprising. It was a testimony of some former British Special Forces ...