Michael Russell claim that ‘Scotland pays out more than it gets back’ is False Michael Russell, the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and
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NEW BOOKS LAUNCHED IN BELFAST THIS MONTH
Terry Brankin loves his wife, but it’s a bloody nuisance that a cold-case investigator is trying to pin him for a long past IRA bombing that killed a young girl. His wife Kathleen can’t take it. He tells her that things were different then. She tells him he must confess. He’d only get two years under the Belfast Agreement and she’ll stand by him, but she leaves him to give him time to mull it over.
CHERISH THE LADIES FAB GIG AT CELTIC CONNECTIONS
The Glasgow audience was captivated by the marvellous vocals, including some authentic sean nos; enthralled by the music, and thrilled by the dancers.
PROVIDING HEALTHY MEALS IN ARGYLL AND BUTE
Young people need to be given choices in all aspects of life and food is no exception. Veganism has grown in popularity over the last few years, so it is wonderful to hear that the catering staff at Lochgilphead Joint Campus are giving pupils the opportunity to explore it.
THE BRIAN WILSON COLUMN
I offer contrasting cameos to illustrate why this might be happening. Last Saturday, an indeterminate number of people splashed their way through Glasgow, waving flags. (Incidentally, should Scotland’s Education and Justice Ministers really be sharing a march with banners which denounce opponents as ‘scum’ and “c`***s’?
SEAMUS HEANEY: THE MANY STAGES OF THINKING
This discussion of Heaney’s politics and understanding of place is admirably nuanced, yet never unclear. He does full justice to Heaney’s complex understanding of “locations of writing”, places enlivened by association with literature, and his related understanding of his own home, which situates it in a broad spatial and temporal context. O