THE thing I remember most vividly about my first visits to the United States all those years ago was the depth of my surprise at finding out that the movies hadn’t lied after all.
THE roadblocks are gone. They seem like another world to Squinter now, memory-holed in a flickering sepia-toned newsreel that seems to be from another century and not another decade.
INFLAMMATION is our body’s natural defence mechanism against injury or damage. Redness and swelling occurs when our bodies immune system reacts to threats.
FOR decades now I have argued that self-determination is one of the big issues of our time. In 2005 I wrote: “In my view the big international struggle of our time is to assert democratic control by people over the decisions which affect their lives. This does not mean retreating behind existing borders and refusing contact with the outside world, but it does mean reasserting the primacy of democracy and working together in order to pursue this objective.”
LEGENDARY Irish folk rock band The Saw Doctors are to play the Falls Park in Belfast this summer as the new link-up between MCD Productions, Shine, and Féile an Phobail takes shape.
