SQUINTER’S first unaccompanied haircut was at what is now Bradley’s barber’s beside the Gravediggers on the Glen Road. It was around 1971 and if memory serves it was known as Peewee’s at the time, although Squinter can’t remember if that was the name on the shop front or a nickname.
THE blockade of fuel depots, motorways, towns and Dublin city centre was entirely avoidable if the FFFG government had taken the growing crisis around the cost of living and increasing fuel and energy bills seriously months ago. Instead, Micheál Martin and Co stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the mounting anger.
This has been a week of hope, despite the desperate loss of life and irreparable crimes against humanity. Simultaneous to the horror and fear we all see and feel, we are starting to see the turn of history arching, at last, towards better days.
Will the Israelis ever escape the label of genocide enthusiasts? Probably not, but that won’t worry them. Most of us like to have a reputation that allows others to think kindly of us, but Israelis have a thick skin .They also has an appetite for blood that would match any vampire.
LEGISLATION to which aims to financially support 90,000 children across the North in receipt of free school meals during school holidays has moved a step closer.
