DR Roy Johnston was a well respected physicist, political theorist and activist who was influential in the formation of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

MAURICE Healy's name was a byword for discretion, trust and respect.

PAT Mullaney had the honour of scoring the first ever point at Casement Park.

WE celebrated Fr Des Wilson’s month’s mind Mass on the 2nd Sunday of Advent when, very fittingly for him, the Word of God described Isaiah’s beautiful glimpse of a world that has been declawed and defanged; a world from which has been drained the poison of violence.

GROWING up in the shadow of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, a young Matt Curry once pointed to a documentary on television and told his mother: "I'll be doing that one day.

CONOR Gilligan was, for nearly four decades, a member of the senior medical staff at the Mater Hospital in north Belfast.

THE winter wind whipped down on Garrison graveyard from Rossinver Braes but Devenish GAA chairman Peter Carty paid a warm and wonderful graveside tribute to Canon Pat Lonergan as he was laid to rest in his beloved parish.

THE people of Portaferry, Kilclief, the GAA and wider community of Co Down and beyond have paid a fond farewell to Una Merrick after her death aged 95.