AS most readers know this writer has never been a fan of the term 'The Troubles' to describe the period many in my generation grew up in and lived through.
EVERY Saturday my small legs struggled to climb the winding stairs, holding tightly to my Mammy’s half crown that I was to give to the man in the Foresters’ office.
THE lead story in Wednesday's Times ('Britain and EU set for Northern Ireland deal') is fairly typical of what you get at this stage of a negotiation - speculation, kite-flying, holding a finger in the air, running a cat up the flagpole, reporting what sources say or maybe just vox-popping in a Brussels bar at closing time.
THE British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, in what was advertised last week as a major speech, was to lay out the plans for economic growth of what passes for Sunak’s government.