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Gail Walker

Music for funerals? Choose something that won't let you down ...

Even in death it seems that we in Northern Ireland are a more conservative lot than the rest of Great Britain.

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Downton's on the up and up

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Maybe it's true that it's all fuelled by misplaced nostalgia, less Who Do You Think You Are?, more Who Do You Wish You'd Been?, and given added impetus by these tough times where nothing seems as secure, predictable and comfy as The Past.
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Collins’ sentence shows justice is a funny old thing

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Disgraced comedian Justin Lee Collins must be the only person in Britain giving thanks to Jimmy Savile for keeping his conviction for harassing his ex-partner Anna Larke from the front pages.

Rod did want to talk about it ...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

It only goes to show that in the heart of every old roué there lurks an old romantic.
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Why Ulstermen are so Taken with Liam's look

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Many may have giggled at those pictures of Liam Neeson, stripped down to a pair of pink underpants, on the Ellen DeGeneres show on US television.
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Joe Brolly's amazing gift reminds us of our everyday heroes

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

There are times when the news is so dark, so depressing, it's hard to lift your head off the pillow and get out of bed. Like the last few days when we've been listening for updates on the search for missing five-year-old April Jones. The slow extinguishing of hope could, if you were in a dark enough mood, stand as proof that life is a terrible, burdensome thing calling for forbearance and little else.

Now lucky Cat has got our Pat, she's laughing

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

The news of Patrick Kielty's wedding to Cat Deeley in Rome, which broke over the weekend, wasn't a huge surprise. The two have been friends for more than 10 years and have been a serious item for some time but formally since May this year.
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Traffic in city on road to nowhere

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Belfast On The Move? It was hard to suppress a grim chuckle at the mordant irony as the city's traffic ground to a halt due to the posturing of our leaders.
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Dave, you're PM, not a chat show guest

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Why did he do it? Why did the PM go crawling to the US? Isn't there just something inappropriate about our leader reducing himself to a late night turn on TV?
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Lynda and Joanne are vote winners

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

As Mike Nesbitt struggles to rebuild the UUP brand, it was good to see his wife Lynda Bryans and MLA Joanne Dobson adding a dash of much-needed glamour to the party conference at the weekend.
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Why our MLAs' Cuban health trip is just a sick joke

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

You're Havana a laugh, aren't you? The decision of the Assembly's Health Committee to send chair and vice chair Sue Ramsey and Jim Wells to a conference in the land of rum, cigars, tail-finned Fifties automobiles and socialist dictatorship has produced a lot of criticism from the voters.
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Tory whip should get on his bike after verbal blast at police

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Why is Tory whip Andrew Mitchell still in a job?
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Sleazy topless Duchess snaps expose William and Kate's naivety

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Let's be clear. The Duchess of Cambridge had her privacy invaded. Contrary to the guff spouted by the editor of the French magazine which originally published the photographs of Kate topless, these are not innocuous pictures of a young couple in love.
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Sadly, Rory identity row is just par for the course here

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

It's not enough to be a credit to "this place". We still get in a tizz about whether Rory McIlroy considers himself British or Irish.
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A tragedy that moves all of us

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

The deaths of Noel Spence and his two sons, Graham and Nevin, go beyond the words we usually reach for to respond to tragedy. Tragedy it most certainly is. But there is something in the blow sustained by the Spence family which affects us all in a most profound way. We could all feel it on Sunday when the news became clearer.
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