Why has Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas nominated a successor now?
Rawhi Fattouh has been named to take over as interim president if Abbas steps down due to ill health. Mahmoud Abbas holds a joint news conference with the Turkish president…
How a new community hub is supporting Bristol’s fastest-changing area
A new community hub has opened in one of the fastest-changing streets in Bristol, with the locals behind it calling for more volunteers to come together and help run the…
Bristol’s best fish and chips as Kingswood chippy takes top spot
A fish and chip shop on the outskirts of Bristol has been crowned the area’s best by our readers. Last month, we asked you what Bristol’s best chippy is. Having…
Belfast hotel builds lifesize gingerbread house – the largest in all of Ireland
In a holiday feat that’s as sweet as it is grand, this gingerbread house stands as the largest on the island of Ireland, but sadly it’s a feast for the…
Why the critics need a reality check on Band Aid legacy
If you were asked to describe Bob Geldof, would you say goodie, baddie, or just somewhere in between such as “well-meaning but often intensely irritating”?
Streets of Belfast: Bryson Street – where religious divide created two doorways in Belfast
Two years ago this month, on November 13, 2022, I, like many others, was deeply saddened to learn of the untimely passing of historian Dr Éamon Phoenix after a brief…
I must think of team as I await another chance to make Irish 10 jersey my own, says Jack Crowley
It’s Tuesday morning, and the running order of the day’s media events has just landed from the IRFU. Jack Crowley has been selected as one of three players, along with…
‘Conor McGregor is the pipe dream. He has the cars, he has the yachts. Lots of people love him’
In 2017, Guy Ritchie spoke about his attempts to cast Conor McGregor in his new film King Arthur.
Once master and apprentice with Ireland, Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell will do battle as equals
Physically and personality-wise, you couldn’t get two more different figures than the men who built the Irish rugby team into the most consistent force in the game.