Playwright Martin Lynch (57) lives in north Belfast. He has two grown-up daughters, Gráinne and Briege, and one grandson, Conan (3). His new play, Chronicles of Long Kesh, tours next January.
Peter Langman shows few signs of the illness that will one day disable him. But the disease has already changed his life
About me. I'm a 40-year-old, physically fit man, the holder of a PhD in
something suitably arcane, with my own house, teeth and hair. But when
people ask me how I am, the "Are you well?" of pre-meteorological
conversation, my impulse is to reply: "Bar the incurable, degenerative
neurological condition, splendid."
The 36-year-old UTV presenter lives in Holywood, Co Down, with her husband
Damian and their two children, Annie (4) and Finn (3)
A host of celebrities have blamed it for their private indiscretions, but doctors are divided on whether sex addiction really exists. As a Tory peer becomes its latest prominent 'victim', Jeremy Laurance unpicks the facts from the fruity fiction
Ah, sex. Our compulsion to reproduce, or to go through the motions of doing
so, has a habit of getting people into trouble, especially if they are
wealthy or powerful. The readiness with which men – it is usually men – with
money or influence will turn aside from their business affairs to engage in
extra-curricular dalliances is all too familiar. What we didn't know, until
recently, is that it may qualify as a medical disorder.
A Belfast mum opened her heart today about the "rewarding but
challenging" experience of being a foster carer in the hope of
encouraging others to consider opening their home to a child in need.
Belfast playwright Martin Lynch
A dangerous superbug that clings to catheters and ventilation tubes has
already struck hundreds of patients in Northern Ireland, it can be revealed
today.
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