Jan 17, 2011 | Features
Wrote a feature titled ‘The Compression of Expression – & The Lost Art of Handwriting’ for today’s Andersonstown News, and the long title is self-explanatory! Pics are of me, aged 5 at primary school, and an example of my spidery handwriting even when I was 16!...
Jan 10, 2011 | Features
Wrote a feature for the ‘Andersonstown News’ (10th January) called ‘Suspicions about “Suspicious Minds”’. Here it is: The Morrisons moved from 2 Corby Way to 27 Iveagh Parade in 1963. Leaving behind my 10-year-old best friend Brendan Hunter, I was broken-hearted. But...
Jan 3, 2011 | Features
Wrote the following feature for the Andersonstown News, 3rd January 2011 about the release in late December of ‘state papers’: A lot of the ‘state papers’ just issued in Dublin, Belfast and London under the 30-year rule relate to the 1980 hunger strike. Some of the...
Dec 20, 2010 | Features
Wrote a spoof story, ‘So This Is Christmas’, for the 20th December edition of the ‘Andersonstown News’, though it appears in the paper under the title ‘Time To Call A Christmas Truce’. “That’ll be ninety pence, sir.” I went through the shrapnel in my coat and fired...
Dec 13, 2010 | Features
I wrote a feature for the Andersonstown News, 13th December, titled ‘A Tale of Two Skippers’, though it appears as ‘Friends Were Fiddling While The North Burned’. One does not have control over these decisions! Anyway, here it is: I stood in front of the gates to his...
Dec 6, 2010 | Features
The story was on page nine of my newspaper. It wasn’t a huge story yet the headline which contained the words ‘prisoner transfer’ viscerally threw up a lot of emotion and anger about the way things had been and need not have been. The headline was based on a crass...
