Robin Livingstone

Robin has been with the Andersonstown News and subsequently the Belfast Media Group for over 30 years. He began his career in journalism with the company writing cinema and TV reviews as a freelance before becoming a staff reporter and going on to be appointed editor of the Andersonstown News in 1993. He became Group Editor of the Belfast Media Group with responsibility for all titles in 2016. He's the author of The Road, a memoir about growing up in Belfast.

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HOLLY: The festive facts you need to know as the Christmas season starts

KILWARLIN’S a pretty good spot to get your Christmas holly. More importantly, Kilwarlin’s a pretty good spot for Christmas holly with berries, which is the only kind of Christmas holly really.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Israel boycott elitists should leave people alone to do their own thing

I’M going to tell you the trouble with BDS. Not because I’m opposed to boycotting, divesting from or sanctioning the genocidal ethnostate of Israel – on the contrary, I think these things are not only necessary but essential if the final frayed and straining thread on the rope connecting the West to humanity is to hold. Rather, I’m going to tell you the trouble with BDS because I want it to stop being a niche activity.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Midnight at the gates of no-longer-loyal City Hall

IT SEEMS I’m a traitor.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: God Save the King and No Surrender at Windsor: Time for the IFA to run up the white flag

IT’S my fault. I know I shouldn’t go on social media and say anything about the IFA or the Northern Ireland team because the only thing that ever comes of it is confrontation and chaos. But I do. And I did.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Loyal Ulster’s taking staunch to DefCon 1

RON McDowell decided not to go the Cenotaph to pay tribute to the fallen on Sunday because Michelle O'Neill was there. On the face of it, this seems extreme. Ron not going, I mean. Not Michelle.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Online Orange insults weren’t an Áras decider

I DON’T think anyone calling anybody an “Orange bastard” is acceptable.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Little sign of support as leisure centre protest fizzles out

THE News Letter counted 30, I counted 19. The images aren’t great, and it was nighttime, so it might have been 20. Or 18. But it defo wasn’t 30.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: DUP’s bum note on City Council music

I’VE said it a million times and I’ll say it again: I don’t care if the Shankill wants to close down for a day every September to pay tribute to Brian Robinson.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: DUP focus on victims isn't really about victims at all

SINN Féin opposed the recent attempt by unionists in a recent Stormont debate to append the word ‘innocent’ to the word ‘victims’. The SDLP opposed it too. But it was Alliance – and party leader Naomi Long in particular – who incurred the Biblical wrath of Loyal Ulster.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Please, Jimbo, tell me what I did wrong

An open letter to the DUP’s Jim Shannon MP

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Gormless Gordon makes himself a problem

WE’RE back to Gordon Lyons. Again.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: The confusing drama of the Connswater 3

IN a social media landscape where hysteria and excitability are prized above reason and calm, Moore Holmes is quite simply a phenomenon.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Jamie Bryson's cunning plan will leave only more anger and grief

IT’S the endless fun that keeps non-unionists coming back for more. Every time Stephen Nolan hits up Jamie Bryson on speed-dial, drivers in their cars turn the volume up a couple of beeps; tradesmen nod at their dust- and paint-stained radios and smile at each other; joggers roll their eyes to no-one in particular, but press their ear buds a little bit tighter.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Library drag queen furore another tedious early panto

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.

ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Nine Gazan children a step too far for Loyal Ulster

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.

Belfast gets the crumbs off the table with Euro 2028 draw

Gaelic Games: St Gall's set up All-Belfast final after victory over Creggan

Soccer: Depleted Cliftonville welcome Swifts to Solitude

Soccer: Joe 'the goal' breaks 300 goals as Reds advance to last eight

Community Gardening: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is here, time to get planting

PLATING UP: A chilli lime and coriander seasoned Basa fillet on a bed of baby beets

EYE ON THE PAST: November 1984 – Direct Rule plan for Belfast

Police treat UVF graffiti at Alliance office as a 'hate crime'

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