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Kokura wasn’t on this writer’s time-sensitive itinerary but I stepped off the shinkansen bullet train anyway. It’s a place I’d always wanted to see and, courtesy of the Fifa World Cup, “just happened to be in the area”.

Which John Lennon song mentions Stormont?

Long before it became “Home Of The Irish League Champions And The World’s Biggest Bonfire”, the port of Larne was known as Ulfreksfjordr. That’s the moniker the Orkney Vikings bestowed on it when they showed up, uninvited, to commandeer the place in the 10th century.

We have 10,000 reasons to celebrate at the Belfast Telegraph this week.

His answers to questions at the Ballymurphy Inquest, and the Saville Inquiry, were conveniently shrouded in an inability to remember. But it is increasingly ...

Memorial Day presents an ideal opportunity to look back on perhaps Ireland’s greatest achievement in America. That is the extraordinary number of Medals of Honor won by Irish natives in the toughest arena of all – fighting for their adopted country in the Civil War.

The DUP and Alliance were the big winners as the final results were confirmed in Lisburn and Castlereagh. The council joined Mid-Ulster and Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon in counting ballot papers well into the early hours of Saturday morning.

It’s my daughter’s ninth birthday in a couple of weeks. She doesn’t want for much, and won’t be getting much. That said, I reckon a modest present and party for her and a few of her little friends will still sting for a couple of hundred pounds.

Like Liverpool, the majority of people here have little or no love for the monarchy. But you’ll never hear God Save The King drowned in jeers at Windsor Park the way it was at Anfield last weekend.

Here in Northern Ireland, we’ve already witnessed the abstruse antics of politicians who campaigned vigorously for a hard border, and were then left shell-shocked and inconsolable when it arrived.