WEEKEND RACING We start with the weekend racing and first port of call is Goodwood for the Group 2 Doom Bar Celebration Mile and a classy looking field go to post for this one. The improving Michael Stoute trained Thikriyaat is the 7/4 favourite with Sean Graham and has been beaten only once in four starts […]
Get set for some Celebration with Thikriyaat
Paedophile former boxer back in the dock
A FORMER champion boxer from Ardoyne jailed last year for a sex attack on a nine-year-old boy will be sentenced next week after admitting to separate charges of sending naked pictures of himself to a 13-year-old boy via the internet. Ciaran James McAuley, 27, who is serving a two-year sentence in Maghaberry for attacking the […]
Community rallies to support Caolán
THE Oldpark community in North Belfast has railed around a 16-year-old boy following the death of his mother by raising almost £2,700. Last week, the North Belfast News broke the news of the death of the popular and well-loved mother, Donna O’Halloran following an illness. The 36-year-old suffered an aneurysm which led to a stroke […]
Strap yourself in for this family flick
Pete’s Dragon (PG) ★★★★ Directed by: David Lowery Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Karl Urban, Robert Redford What’s the story? YOUNG Pete (Oakes Fegley) is a little boy who is very lucky to be alive. Having lost his parents in a tragic car accident in the middle of nowhere, Pete was forced to venture into […]
The peril of clean windows
It’s a photograph so tragic that would drive Dúlra to tears. It’s of one of Ireland’s most beautiful birds, lying limp and lifeless in a human hand. The sparkle of life that a bullfinch carries with it with such aplomb is suddenly absent. This bird may have those same impressive feathers with their deeply […]
Churchill death the spark for Casement reinterment
Operation Hopenot was many years in the planning. This was the name given to the planned state funeral of Winston Churchill. When the 90-year-old former leader died on January 24, 1965 Operation Hopenot swung into operation. Six days later after a three-day lying-in-state in the Palace of Westminster, the funeral took place in St […]