IN a roiling ocean of misinformation and nonsense, the human mind can only navigate by way of small pointers; it manages to keep itself afloat by clinging on to the nearest of the bobbing buoys. Or at least mine does.
UP until recently a GAA pitch had more lines on it than Gordon Ramsay’s bake. You’d have thought that any sport played on a surface that includes a large and small parallelogram as well as a hefty array of standard straight lines would think twice about adding to the mix. But it’s the GAA. The simple and obvious is never an option.
SIMON Harris has said that Irish unity is not a priority for him. That is self-evident. But for him to say so is at odds with the stated position of most senior Irish politicians including An Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Their position is one of verbalised adherence to the constitutional objective of unity. In other words, they are verbalised republicans. Rhetorical United Irelanders. Mr Harris doesn't even pay lip service to this.
THE unity of the island of Ireland is “not where my priority is today”, said Tánaiste Simon Harris, speaking recently during his first visit to Stormont since the formation of the new Dublin government.
I'VE just had the luxury of visiting the Armagh Planetarium for a mind-blowing experience: A fiftieth celebration of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
A CORNER of my heart opened for North Belfast when I worked there and met the people, saw the places, heard the stories and saw the potential for it to shine.
THE English love a good mystery. From Agatha Christie to PD James, From Midsomer Murders to Death in Paradise, there’s perhaps no other nation on the planet so enthralled by the lure of a stabbing in the billiards room, a poisoning at the dinner table, or a shooting in the library.
NEWS Letter editor Ben Lowry has had an idea. He thinks it might be instructive, á propos of the Republic’s harbouring of the IRA all these years (look, it’s Ben, just stay with this), that a historical precedent can be profitably invoked.
ACCORDING to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his government is looking at “every conceivable way” to prevent me and at least 300 other people from receiving compensation for wrongful arrest and imprisonment in the 1970s. This issue of compensation arises from the decision by the British Supreme Court in May 2020 that the Interim Custody Order (ICO) or internment order issued against me was unlawful.
