Saturday 18 May 2013
Shouting loudly about how world-class everything is in Northern Ireland – world-class golf courses, world-class restaurants, world-class colleges, world-class museum experiences: you name it, we're the world-beaters – leaves us with a problem.
Chin, chin Uncle Monty. You were the best. Your words, phrases and philosophies will live on, repeated by future generations of film fans stumbling across one of the finest British movies ever made.
I was back in my old stomping ground Manchester recently.
I'm not a livestock farmer. I'll admit that straight up. I don't know how someone can raise animals and care about them and cry when they get lost in the snow, knowing that the only reason they are raising said animals is to sell them for slaughter.
Steven Spielberg might wanna consider making a sequel to his Band of Brothers series based on Ed and David – (Mili)band of Brothers....
Jamie Bryson must be wishing he lived in South Africa. Or that he was an Olympic athlete.
The bar on broadcasting standards has been lowered again. The BBC's Eddie Mair has taken opinionated and aggressive interviewing on television and radio to a new level of disrespect for people in authority.
For millions of Christians throughout the world, Easter is a time for reassurance and renewal.
So it turns out TV isn't bad for children after all. This'll be interesting.
Today is an important Friday for many of us in Northern Ireland.
Next week marks the transformation of a sweet-faced Disney princess into a gun toting, bum-grinding, drug-snorting gangster and I'm still pondering whether that's a good thing or not.
Pack up your troubles in your shopping bags and smile, smile, smile. You'll be smiling on the other side of your fizzer when you have to pay 5p for each bag, right enough.
Has there ever been a speech in the Assembly more patronising to women than Jonathan Bell's contribution to the debate on the Marie Stopes clinic?
What would the leaders of Dublin's Easter Rising back in 1916 have made of this year's celebrations?
David Cameron's decision to push corporation tax back to autumn 2014 was hardly a surprise. Everyone has been predicting a long lead-in in the devolution of the tax-varying powers.
I'm up to speed on Kim Kardashian now, after a friend filled me in on the phenomenon. Reality television. Armenian. Curvy. Up the duff. All you need to know really.
Bad news for ranters, as research shows letting off steam online can leave you feeling more frustrated than ever.
Fair play to Carol Vorderman, she even manages to get publicity mileage out of cowping downstairs.
The BBC teatime quiz show Pointless is unusual because it doesn't follow the usual shouty format of that particular genre of television entertainment.
Farmers are always complaining. We know that because everybody says so. Especially in the city. Farmers with their big subsidies and their hi-tech machinery to do all the work. Don't know they're living, do they?
One of Northern Ireland's grandest stately homes has been badly damaged in a fire.
Bashar Assad said he will not step down as president of Syria before elections are held in the war-ravaged country.
Explosions have gone off in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi.
Substitute Craig Doyle came off the bench to fire in a spectacular hat-trick as Carlow powered to a 4-17 to 2-13 victory over London in the Leinster SHC at Dr Cullen Park.
Stoke striker Kenwyne Jones has apologised to team-mate Glenn Whelan after smashing his car windscreen in a mistaken act of retribution for a training-ground prank which went wrong.
There could be better to come from Tuscan Light judged on her manner of victory in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Median Auction Fillies Maiden at Wexford.
A-lister Kate Winslet has ramped up the glitz and glam to address the "heartbreaking" situation of youngsters living rough.
Kristen Stewart is apparently dreaming about the "normal family life" she wants with Robert Pattinson.
Monica Bellucci thinks her star sign is one of the reasons she battles feelings of insecurity.
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