Why do they always make witnesses in court swear to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”?
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Seasick with a poker face
38 DERRY poker players have failed in a legal bid to have returned to them £24,000 seized by Trevors in a raid on an illegal poker
Straight talking from the Mail
SQUINTER hates to say it, but the Daily Mail doesn’t always get it wrong.You may remember they led the campaign to stop the EC from outlawing bendy
Silence in the court
AFTER half an hour in McSorley’s Tavern in Clogher on Friday afternoon as the designated driver, Squinter gets bored (oh, alright then, jealous) of the raucously happy conversation, sets down his fizzy water and goes for a bit of a dander.
Five-a-day? Get it down your neck!
THERE aren’t many primary schools which allow their children to bring canned fizzy drinks to school with them for lunch or break. The Big Guy, like most kids his age, brings a still soft drink, or sometimes water. Although, as a dentist pointed out, you need to be careful as some still juices contain as much sugar as the infamous canned mouth-rotters they’re supposed to replace.
The tale of the Black Widow
THE CONVICTION of Karen Walsh for the murder on Christmas Day 2008 of Newry pensioner Maire Rankin saw the tabloids go immediately on to automatic pilot.
