SPORTS promoter Barry Hearn is retiring and looking back over 40 years as ‘Mr Snooker’, he hasn’t had much of a good word to say about Alex Higgins.

HOW lovely it is to sit in the garden with your grandson and listen to a tiny blue tit stream out his song, never pausing for breath.

LOCKDOWN has resulted in lots of surprises, phone calls from long lost friends, a card here, a letter there and a lot of early spring cleaning which has revealed treasures I thought were long lost too.

THURSDAY of this week might pass over as any other recent Thursday – concern about Covid, worry about finances, missing beloved members of the family who have passed on.

I THINK the Post Office people have missed a trick.

THERE are two women in east Belfast who are especially grateful to Trevor Kane, the entrepreneur promoter who died earlier this month.