Anne Hailes Today

I’M GOING TO miss the para olympics – they were brilliant and I guess tonights ending ceremony is going to be spectacular. The excitement was […]

Like many, I knew nothing about the Antrim and Newtownabbey Crematorium until 10 days ago when a funeral service opened my eyes to this state […]

There was a great outpouring of love and respect for journalist and writer Nell McCafferty who died last week.  She was 80 and she’d been […]

Beyond reproach?  Consummate professional?  Throughly nice man?  Well, that’s what we reckoned.  Doesn’t it show how being judgemental is a dangerous thing? Hew Edwards wasn’t […]

So two weeks of sport come to an end tonight and what a two weeks it has been. It was two weeks of visual delight […]

IT’S impossible to ignore the awful news stories of the last week, the murders of three little girls, the violent reactions in the public arena. […]

When Maureen Matin asked me to accompany her to meet friends visiting from Ohio America, I was happy to accept but didn’t expect to meet […]

What awful news this morning about ‘outages’, seems like total chaos and hopefully someone somewhere will get to the bottom of this and make everything […]

DRAMA LAST NIGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA AND IT ALWAYS IMPRESSES ME HOW BBC RADIO 5 IS ON THE BALL WITH REPORTERS IMMEDIATELY THERE GIVING AN EYE […]

Recently on BBC 5 LIVE Stephen Nolan covered the subject of toilets.  Fair enough, important to us all.  His take on the subject was the […]