A NEW survey which found that 56 per cent of respondents agreed that the Irish language adds a “richness and diversity” to life here in the North has been welcomed.
ONGOING investment in Divis and Black Mountain for a range of environmental and visitor improvement projects underway across the site has been welcomed.
They say never meet your heroes. And that may well be true in many cases but I have been lucky to tto come to know one lifetime hero who has surpassed my hopes for what she might be.
George Bernard Shaw didn’t think much of teachers: “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches”. Mark Twain wasn’t behind the door either: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” And then there are those great lines Paul Simon sings in ‘Kodachrome’: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school/ It’s a wonder I can think at all.”
