Anne Hailes Today

  With Christmas round the corner it should be a time of happiness but with so many people worried out of their minds with money […]

  Does An Address Matter? Once upon a time I was born in The Barne, Silverstream, Greenisland, Co. Antrim and I grew up at that […]

  Reaction to Tragedy What did you think of Andrew Neil’s introduction to his programme This Week when he reeled off the positives that are […]

Beautiful Paris Will Not Be Brought To Its Knees Friday 13th November 2015 was a frightening game changer for all of us and since then […]

The Excellence of Acting There have been some good things and some terrible things in the last week.  One little cameo was the BBC Two […]

  A Picture That Is Worth A Thousand Words This little photo is simply entitled ‘No One Is Born A Rasist’.  It’s beautiful and sends […]

  What a treat. Yesterday afternoon I went along to Queens Film Theatre to see the National Theatre production of Hamlet, the recording of a […]

What A Mess And It’s Not Over Yet My goodness, what a mess. Some people laughed at the young audience who were so disappointed when […]

Late News:  Once in a while something happens in a theatre that stops your breath and blows your mind. Nation Theatre production The Curious Incident […]

Brian Friel with the other founders of the Field Day Theatre Company, Seamus Deane, Stephen Rea, Tom Paulin, David Hammond and Seamus Heaney The death […]