IT has been a very busy and eventful couple of weeks for all of those who speak and enjoy the Irish language and who have campaigned for decades ag...

ON Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just two weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been b...

ROSELEEN Walsh is one of 36 women who were interned in the early 1970s. Her latest book – My Internment – tells the very personal story of her life...

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 o...

ACCORDING to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his government is looking at “every conceivable way” to prevent me and at least 300 other peo...

FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael, supported by the regional independents, have just published their Programme for Government 2025. This contains the objec...

I AM not a big watcher of television. When I have my way – which is usually when everyone else is out – the TV goes on only when there is something...

TED Howell was 77 when he died last Friday. On Tuesday we buried him in Milltown Cemetery in the grave of the love of his life, Eileen Duffy. The t...

From Andersonstown News, 2 January 2025 I HAVE the flu. It’s a sign of my loyalty to you, dear reader, that I write this column in my sick bed. Bat...

WELL done to all of those – 1,600 at the last count – who last week participated in the Hunger for Justice Fast/Troscadh ar son na Córa in support ...

THE Northern Executive has taken welcome and decisive action to protect our environment, our health and jobs by committing to a ban on all forms of...

IT'S three weeks to Christmas. The decorations, inside and outside of the houses and shops and the Christmas trees in all their finery are everywhe...