I meet councillors from North Belfast every day in the Dome of Delight, but on the Friday before Christmas I had occasion to roll out the red carpet for an Ardoyne representative with a difference.
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A tree in the house makes Christmas
There’s no doubt Christmas is the most difficult time of year. The pressure is on to make it a special time for children. And then there are the presents, the Christmas dinner and the increased cost of keeping a house warm in winter. And everybody loves to have Christmas clothes to wear on the big day. Everyone wants Sunday to go without a hitch, and so we stock up on food as if war is about to break out.
Blues make Windsor Park a fortress
Linfield secured their fourth successive 1-0 home league win – this time overcoming struggling Glenavon.
Drink drives the mistake of taking the wrong car
The news last week that someone had borrowed a Garda car after being stopped suspected of drink driving reminded me of a couple of events from the past.
Why our best social networks aren’t on computers
I HAVE been giving a lot of thought to our social networks as Christmas approaches. Not the Facebooks and the Twitters, mind you, but those other, underappreciated social networks which form the foundation of our community.
Totting up the tots provides a glimpse of all our futures
Funny how religion and politics can criss-cross. Here we are in the mouth of Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus with all its implications, and within days of that feast the Economic and Social Research Institute in the south has come up with some new and slightly startling research about babies.
