IT'S difficult to imagine that there was a time in our recent history when parents sent their children away to America during the summer to escape the violence on the streets. But it happened.
THE decision of Health Minister Robin Swann to step down from his Executive position as soon as the Westminster election is called later this year is just one of a couple of worrying indicators of the sorry state of the UUP – and therefore of unionism more widely.
DANNY Morrison is sitting with the feet up this week after completing a 200-mile cycle of the Portuguese Camino in just six days, finishing at the Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
SEVEN points from the boot of PJ Toal helped Éire Óg make it back-to-back wins in Division Three on Wednesday and deny St Malachy's their first points of the campaign.
Boston architect Michael Murphy flew into Dublin this morning to address a landmark conference in the GPO on the creation of a cultural quarter focused on Moore Street - a street running behind the post office which was the site of the Rising leaders' retreat and their surrender.
FOLLOWING the success of their 2023 sell-out production of ‘The Addams Family' – which won the prestigious Best Visuals award from All-Ireland Association of Irish Musical Societies – St Agnes’ Choral Society is back with ‘Young Frankenstein’, which is running at The MAC until Saturday this week.
IRISH language campaigners have welcomed approval from Belfast City Council to approve the installation of more than 300 Irish language street signs in West Belfast's Gaeltacht Quarter.
The nights are getting longer and at last, days getting warmer as the Antrim Football Leagues begin to take shape with a full midweek programme seeing all but one game take place on Wednesday.
