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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 ...