BETWEEN 20 December 2025 and 2 January 2026 police received 1,407 domestic abuse calls – an increase on the 1,290 calls recorded during the same period in 2024-2025 – according to figures released today.
COUNCILLORS clashed at Belfast City Council on Thursday evening after the TUV and DUP criticised money prioritised over Irish language over poverty in the city.
“WE are what we eat.” Squinter thinks it was the 19th century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach who said that. Others will tell you that the sentence is a loose translation of words spoken a bit earlier in the 19th century by the lawyer and culinary commentator Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, who remarked: “Dis-moi ce que tu manges et je te dirai ce que tu es.” (“Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.”) *Ignore the haters who allege that I looked these things up on Google.
MY da Archie loved the horses and he loved a bet. He’d come home from work of an evening and after his dinner he’d settle into his seat with the Belfast Telegraph and lose himself in the tales of the turf.
THERE was something unusual – eerie even – in the air as Dúlra and Squinter dandered along the shores of Lough Neagh on New Year’s Eve. It was a perfect winter’s day, crisp and cloudless. But the fields facing the lough seemed to have rejected the tranquil mood.
