Finally inveigled a reluctant friend to walk the 17,000 glorious steps over Ballard Down with me today. One of the best walks in Britain (according to me, Julia Bradbury and my grateful friend). Words and pictures by MT Rainey
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BOOKS: Survivor of a stroke, he taught literacy for a time to people in Glasgow housing schemes such as Drumchapel
Since so few people get out and about anymore, were the new generation of authors picking up ideas from what they read on Facebook in the same way their elders would have done from what they overheard on buses and trains?
BOOK REVIEWS: The intrigue of Irish books
So I found myself playing that game beloved of weekend newspaper supplements. Best books of the Year. And I wasn’t surprised to find Irish books dominating the top ten.
High Court trials to resume with distanced jurors
Public will be denied access during pandemic Judges, advocates , sheriffs, the Court of Session and Dumbarton Sheriff Court. The judges are Lord Pentland and
BOOK REVIEW: GALWAY STORIES BY LISA FRANK AND ALAN McMONAGLE
The twenty short stories travel between neighbourhoods of Galway city and county, from the city centre to Salthill, from Killary to Barna, inland to Ballinasloe and offshore to Inisbofin, one of the few places in Ireland where you can still hear the rasping kerrx-kerrx call of the endangered corncrake.
Priest School flings its doors open to TV in Rome
The programme follows the lives of the class of 2018/2019, with special focus on five young seminarians. These trainee priests had interesting past lives as a former law student, a maths teacher, a language student, a radio DJ and a Navy Seal.