Day: February 7, 2020
SNP TRIED TO MUZZLE SUN ON MACKAY STORY
Mackay is said to have quit as finance secretary on Wednesday evening, although his resignation was not made public until the following morning. It has been reported that he is in line for a £12,000 severance payment.
ALASDAIR GRAY PRINTS ON SALE NEXT MONTH
Unseen Alasdair Gray prints go on display in Glasgow
ACADEMY WINS THE AWARD FOR NURTURE
Dumbarton Academy has become the first school in West Dunbartonshire to receive a national award celebrating its nurturing ethos.
BOOKS: WE CAN’T SHOVE THIS STORY INTO THE PAST
The rapid modernisation of Ireland in recent years can easily hide the shadow of our very recent past. That modernisation is most notably marked by the introduction of marriage equality, and the repeal of the eighth amendment. These referendums, passed by two-thirds of the population, would have been unthinkable ten years ago.
BOOKS: CATHERINE KELLY REVIEWS ‘THE ACTRESS’
If you watched TV in Ireland in the late 2000s, you may remember the scene: a young man tears up a piece of soil with bare, muddied hands, lifts it to his nose and inhales. “We’ll miss your cooking in Berlin,” his German partner tells the young man’s mother over the breakfast table, “but at least they have Kerrygold there too.”