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Pat McartThe Irish News |
The eldest son is a vice-principal of a school in east Donegal and he must have been really stuck during their recent careers day exhibition when he...
I was watching ‘Bombing Brighton: The Plot To Kill Thatcher’ on the BBC this week. It’s already been done a million times so I am not going to...
Edmund Coyle was born in the little village of Carrigart in Co Donegal but for some odd reason after his father died, his mother took himself and his...
After studying philosophy and politics at University College London, Ken Follett went back to Wales to work on his local newspaper. Not finding the...
Alain Delon died on August 18 at the ripe old age of 88. He was the most famous French actor of his generation. It is said his life mirrored some of...
My wife says I have an awful habit: that I keep putting things off, I’m a procrastinator. And she’s right. I had heard that Marie White wasn’t...
Is everyone lying and only Israel can be relied on to tell the truth? Is that it? Amnesty lying? Médecins Sans Frontiéres? UNWRA? The International...
Back in the day, the SDLP leader John Hume had a habit of dropping in to my office at the Derry Journal. I was the editor there at the time. He would...
In the space of about 10 days I read Tony Blair’s A Journey, the memoir of the Labour Party’s longest serving prime minister, and followed that up...
The doorbell rang and my mother told me to go answer it. Standing outside was a man with a great tan and a strange accent: “Does a Pat McArt live...
It was getting close to lunch time and Martin McGuinness told me he that as he was heading straight for Belfast, he was going to get a quick bite in...
Born in Leeds to an Irish father, the acclaimed actor Peter O’Toole always considered himself an Irish citizen and remained proud of this heritage...