Anne Hailes Today

One year tomorrow the horrific attack on the festival goers in Isreal. It was terrible to read of the carnage but there could be no […]

Autumn is making its presence felt and the colours of the falling leaves are beautiful. Here’s hoping for a dry and mellow fruitfulness for the […]

It’s really swings and roundabouts.  First it was salt, then fat, now it’s sugar but when the late Dr. Michael Mosley says sugar I take notice. […]

I will take this recent writing out on a cold day next January and recall the last day of summer in Donegal.  The sky is […]

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. […]