CELTIC sit level on points with Hearts at the top of the Premiership and four points ahead of their struggling city rivals after delivering a confident and controlled performance against an Aberdeen side clearly still dining off memories of their Scottish Cup triumph over the Hoops last season.
WELL done to all of those who planned, organised, participated in, or generally contributed to this year's hugely successful Féile an Phobail. It was a colourful, imaginative, informative, entertaining, empowering and exhausting couple of weeks.
It was a bittersweet weekend for the parishioners of St Luke’s as the community gathered to bid farewell to Father Brian McCann and to honour the extraordinary contribution of Sinéad McAllister.
MY online percentage calculator tells me that two million is 2.8 per cent of 70 million. The same online percentage calculator tells me that 2.8 per cent of 300 is 8.4.
I REMEMBER when in order to get blanket coverage on the wireless and TV and in the papers the Ra had to put a 2,000lb-er in a town centre, the UVF had to machine-gun a bar and the Brits had to get some journalists drunk.
CELTIC got their 2025/26 campaign off to a winning start with a hard fought 1–0 victory over a resolute St Mirren side at Celtic Park. Despite dominating large spells of the match, the Scottish champions were made to wait until the dying minutes before finally breaking the deadlock.
THE northern statelet was built for unionism. It was constructed and then managed in a way to ensure that nationalists would never have a say in running the place.
OUR front page story this week about staff of the Falls Leisure Centre saving the life of Gerard Bradley, who collapsed after his regular visit to the facility, is an inspirational story of human heroism.
AT a Féile event exploring the contents of the book Lost Gaels, GAA President Jarlath Burns began his remarks by asking the audience to remember three more Lost Gaels, Vanessa Whyte and her children James and Sara. This followed their names being remembered in Croke Park in the week they were murdered in their family home in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh.
