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South Belfast News April 28, 2012

Aquinas set up Roses meeting

With the scent of silverware in the air, a much changed Aquinas team showed up for this enthralling encounter at Hydebank than the one that had stumbled midweek.

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South Belfast News April 27, 2012

Plucky Blue ’n’ Blacks fall short against Ards

Aquinas U17s welcomed Ards Rangers to Strangford on a cold, wet and grey Monday evening.

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South Belfast News April 26, 2012

Local rivals set to clash in Nelson Cup final

SOUTH BELFAST rivals St Matthew’s and Aquinas are set to make the trip across town on Thursday evening as they battle it out in the Nelson Cup final at Solitude.

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South Belfast News April 22, 2012

Rosario cruise into cup final

A convincing 3-0 victory for Rosario was just reward for this cup semi-final performance.

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South Belfast News April 21, 2012

Ulidia left feeling short-changed

Ulidia were 1-0 down after five minutes when Shorts scored a free header from their first free-kick.

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South Belfast News April 20, 2012

Magnificent Aquinas U16s almost reign in Spain

Easter 2012 will live long in the memory of the merry band of Aquinas U16s who ventured to Spain to take on some top teams and academies from around Europe – and came so close to conquering all before them in a dramatic Costa Daurada Cup competition.

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Columnists May 18, 2012

Lock us up and swallow the key!

I was in Donegal at the weekend and I asked a man how he planned to vote in the south’s up-coming referendum. “Well,” he told me, “ if Sinn Féin say no about something, I say yes”.

Liam Murphy May 14, 2012

Big man of GAA celebrates in style

Veni, Vidi, Vinci . I came, I saw, I conquered, was the powerful message sent back to Rome by Julius Caesar when he won a war in Zela (currently known as Zile in Turkey. After spending two days with the Gaels of Glengormley, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might well have sent a similar message back to headquarters. Throughout the two days he won the hearts of all who met him as he demonstrated his love and passion for the Irish language and Gaelic games.

Columnists May 13, 2012

That’s not the way to do it as summer nears

THERE’S nothing funnier for children to watch than a long-suffering wife getting battered with a cudgel by a short-tempered violent husband – or so you’d think if you watched a seaside Punch and Judy show.

Colin Millar May 12, 2012

Blues make it a double

Linfield replicated their end of season celebrations from 12 months ago as they lifted their second trophy in the space of a week, defeating Crusaders 4-1 in Saturday’s Irish Cup final.

Andersonstown News May 11, 2012

My marathon highs and lows

HIGHLIGHTS 1. Sheltering in City Hall with marathon veteran from New York Fr Brian Jordan — chaplain to the trade unions of the Big Apple — before the 9am start while thousands were getting drenched outside waiting for the Lord Mayor Niall Óg to sound the starting horn (gun for off apparently decommissioned).

Columnists May 11, 2012

Who calls the shots in Europe?

I enjoy elections. I enjoy them so much, I was delighted when the Fianna Fáil wheeze of introducing electronic voting machines backfired, leaving them (and the taxpayer, of course) with machinery that couldn’t be used and cost a packet to store.