Activist Allanah Maurer gave the new Save Loch Lomond mascot MacNulty his first outing at the recent Hope Over Fear rally in Glasgow’s George Square.
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BILL HEANEY’S NOTEBOOK
Botched up roadworks in Balloch impact on patients in the Vale
Patients can’t get to appointments because buses have been withdrawn.
Pope’s warning against gossip ‘destroying reputations everywhere’
Be careful of the words you use today for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Those were the words on a poster in the vestibule at the old Carmelite Convent in Kirktonhill, Dumbarton.
Dublin could be the new Damascus for a Church in need of significant reform
On the eve of the Papal Visit to Dublin, our Ireland correspondent, GREGORY DILLON, writes about how much the country has changed since the last visit by the now sainted Pope John Paul II in 1979.
Pope urges bishops to go beyond apologising to clerical abuse victims
Poor Pope Francis. The Holy Father keeps trying to make a meaningful gesture to victims for the many scandalous instances of clerical child abuse across the world and is consistently thwarted by fundamentalist prelates and priests who fudge this major issue.
AYRSHIRE JOURNEY
A chiel amongst us takin’ notes
I spent the last couple of days in Ayr last week in the wake of the annual birthday celebrations for Rabbie Burns, the national bard.