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Another cut in our MLAs’ pay won’t be good for the 90 members’ cumulative self-esteem. The last one was pretty savage — 27.5%, which took the occasional lawmakers’ salaries from £51,500 down to £37,337.

PSNI chief constable. It’s one of the very few jobs where, good, bad or indifferent, the incumbent is guaranteed a knighthood. But will we hear “arise, Sir Simon” any time soon?

George Best, Manchester United and Northern Ireland superstar. One of football’s greatest-ever players. Wife beater. Snooker ace Alex Higgins, ‘the People’s Champion’ who had an ironic habit of physically and verbally abusing many of those people.

Following a decades-long campaign, victims killed by the British Army in 1971 were found to be totally innocent, Ministry of Defence then agreed to pay damages to families. 

A PRIME location in Lisburn city with stunning views over the historic Castle Gardens has been identified for development as residential housing.

Loyalists hated the movie Resurrection Man when it came out, and no wonder. Clearly based on the notorious Shankill Butchers, it was a shocking, surreal and horrific piece of work.

Clayton Bissonnette’s death in a Canadian jail didn’t cause any ripples at the time.

Clayton Bissonnette’s death in a Canadian jail didn’t cause any ripples at the time.

Clayton Bissonnette’s death in a Canadian jail didn’t cause any ripples at the time.

Have you come across the term ‘drizzle tourists’? Me neither, until recently. Apparently our much-derided mild weather is now a positive asset, an enticing escape route from the sweltering sun elsewhere on this ‘boiling’ planet.