Opinion

EYE ON THE PAST: June 1985 – New Travellers' site at the Windy Gap

We look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week in 1985...

PLATING UP: Chicken with red pepper in a creamy mustard sauce

We hope you enjoy our cookery  column with chef Paul Watters who each week will take the fear out of cooking with his easy to follow recipes...

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Is there a test that Jon Burrows can pass?

“JON Burrows,” remarked RTÉ political correspondent Vincent Kearney on the former Trevor’s elevation to UUP leader in January, “believes he will bring a fresh approach that will appeal to those who have turned away from his party and politics in general”.

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Micheál, just don't make the same mistakes that Keir made

“The mood in Downing Street is one of grief and sorrow tonight”.

Industry insider blows the lid on multi-million pound scale of bonfire pallet crime

THE theft of pallets from businesses for Eleventh Night bonfires is an “industrialised crime” backed up by paramilitary threats and intimidation.

MINDFUL MOMENT: Clonard Novena delivers the solstice light of joy and trust

JUDE COLLINS: Irish Andy doesn't seem bothered about the union either way

You probably know this, but  Wayne Rooney, Declan Rice, Jack Grealish and Harry Maguire could have played for Ireland.  Alas, their thoughts were on higher things, like playing for England and how much more money that’d be worth.  Andy Burnham, said to have been a tidy footballer in his time, could not have played for Ireland, even though  his great-grandfather was from Cork.

Robin Livingstone: When did the DUP give Ulster Resistance their notice?

IT'S  remarkable how many people I speak to who have no idea that Ulster Resistance weapons are still swirling around out there. There’s a sort of vague sense that the armed wing of the DUP was somehow part of the exhausting decommissioning process of the early noughties and that the massive arms shipment brought in from Lebanon in 1988 was covered in concrete or dropped into Beaufort’s Dyke from a squadron of Chinooks.

SQUINTER: Israel’s hasbara now comes with a haitch

IRELAND’S the most antisemitic country in the world, isn’t it?

HEALTHWISE: Why not steam your vegetables instead of boiling

WHEN vegetables are cooked under certain conditions some of the B and C  group vitamins can be reduced or destroyed. 

DÚLRA: Which do you prefer: Midsummer of midwinter?

IT’S no surprise that our ancestors were intoxicated by the idea of midsummer. So intoxicated that they built a temple to it at Brú na Bóinne in County Meath, a place that is now one of the wonders of the world.

EYE ON THE PAST: June 1985 – Plans for the Ashton Centre take root

We look at the stories that were making the headlines in the Andersonstown News this week in 1985...

PLATING UP: Char siu chicken thigh chunks with Asian salad

We hope you enjoy our cookery  column with chef Paul Watters who each week will take the fear out of cooking with his easy to follow recipes...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Let's not be afraid to point out the bloody obvious

Last week reminded us all what is at stake when we allow the dehumanisation of our fellow citizens. On Tuesday, when the news and visual imagery of a vicious assault emerged, the immediate and quite unique response felt disproportionate to the one-on-one attack. When a statement from Keir Starmer comes out about a stabbing in North Belfast you can be certain that there is something bigger afoot than concern for a North Belfast man’s welfare. It was however an indication of the seriousness with which the Executive and the PSNI, viewed the inevitably violent response. 

CELTIC STORIES: Lowballing Celtic look to have learned no lessons

Trying to consume Celtic content in the midst of a World Cup can be off-putting and quite frankly, exhausting.