IT is the penultimate day of Féile an Phobail 2025 and it is another busy day of events, culminating on Saturday night when the legendary UB40 will take to the stage at the Falls Park concert venue.
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.
IT is set to be a massive final weekend at Féile an Phobail with three outdoor concerts set to take place at the Féile concert venue in the Falls Park.
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.
CELTIC got their 2025/26 campaign off to a winning start with a hard fought 1–0 victory over a resolute St Mirren side at Celtic Park. Despite dominating large spells of the match, the Scottish champions were made to wait until the dying minutes before finally breaking the deadlock.
THE northern statelet was built for unionism. It was constructed and then managed in a way to ensure that nationalists would never have a say in running the place.
IF it cares to learn them, there were many lessons for BBCNI – and indeed the wider BBC – at a panel discussion of its disastrous loss in the Gerry Adams libel case.
AT a Féile event exploring the contents of the book Lost Gaels, GAA President Jarlath Burns began his remarks by asking the audience to remember three more Lost Gaels, Vanessa Whyte and her children James and Sara. This followed their names being remembered in Croke Park in the week they were murdered in their family home in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh.
DON'T be fooled by the title of Danny Morrison’s new book, 'All The Dead Voices'. It’s a quotation from Samuel Beckett and, yes, you do hear the voices of those who have died, but it’s also a book of twenty-five parts, each bursting with life in its many forms.
