Saturday 25 May 2013
David Ford's difficulties with his church will be familiar to thousands. Who indeed doesn't sometimes wince at the teaching they are presumed to assent to? And what would be left of our churches if everyone who couldn't buy into the whole package of teachings had to leave or step down from positions of responsibility?
There's nothing wrong with introducing social housing into private residential areas if it's managed properly and the location and properties are suitable for the tenants.
Michael Jackson's mother and his three children are suing his concert promoters AEG Live for billions in a case centring on the hiring of 'Dr Death' Conrad Murray who pumped Jackson with a lethal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol.
I hope Corrie's Bill Roache isn't guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967. If his spiritual beliefs are genuine, I imagine he would confess if he was guilty and ask her forgiveness.
Last year, the Large Hadron Collider made headlines around the world by identifying a particle believed to be the Higgs Boson. Just last month, we confirmed this magnificent discovery of the particle crucial for understanding why objects in the universe have mass.
It was supposed to be the issue that got Republicans to temporarily melt their anti-Obama cold, cold hearts. But what a difference a couple of bombs in Boston have made in political sparring on US immigration law reform.
Rory McIlroy says he will make up his own mind about which country to represent at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil; a brave declaration, maybe even a foolhardy one.
Sir James Galway's Belfast secret is out today – the Waterworks off the Antrim Road was his favourite place on earth when he was growing up.
I can understand critics and reviewers getting all worked up over Lucinda Williams and her soaring voice, but to describe the sounds this country singer makes as like bourbon being poured over broken glass is going a bit far.
The Army Air Corp's 656 Squadron is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a book telling its dramatic story and written by Ulster author Guy Warner who specialises in military affairs.
Today as you read this column they are still bringing out the dead, 500 and counting, from the razed rubble near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Well might Karren Brady say it's no bad thing for a woman to go back to work after having a baby, and it might be more sensible anyway.
The past two weeks will be remembered as a landmark for education in Northern Ireland. Since the Department of Education's ministerial advisory group released its report on shared education, media coverage focused on academic selection.
Just why did Gerry Adams do the big RTE interview this week – allegedly to talk about the IRA's past? Instead of coming clean on cases which remain unsolved, the dissembling Adams ended up giving us more denials, more evasions and digging more holes for himself (if you'll forgive the rather unfortunate pun).
Readers of newspapers and news websites, particularly of the more serious kind, tend to be people who care passionately about the political and civic health of the area in which they live and work.
At last, May is upon us: the month of sitting in the garden without wearing a coat, the Chelsea Flower Show and more Alan Titchmarsh on our televisions.
When you are on the brink of making a massive mistake, what do you do? The answer seems pretty simple to me: you stop.
Mention libel tourism and the first Northern Ireland lawyer most people think of is Paul Tweed.
Belfast's retail trade and tourism suffered badly from street protests. There are fears the coming marching season could inflict further damage. There is, though, an example that Belfast can learn from.
Press regulation, Leveson and the Royal Charter are the buzzwords in the media world at present. But an equally, if not more important, development – the reform of the law of defamation – has also been occupying the minds of parliamentarians, both in the Assembly and at Westminster.
Three-day festival underway in Derry
Hundreds of women take part in 10k race
Comedy with big following means blockbuster
Hangover star takes 87-year-old to premiere
Toronto's mayor has said he does not smoke crack cocaine and is not an addict, after a video purported to show him using the drug.
Mazen Zred doesn’t feel lucky, strapped up in his bed at the Nini Hospital, swathed in bandages, two bottles of painkillers pumping into him.
Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford has denied accusations of drug use, breaking a week-long silence over a raging media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of crack-cocaine.
Speaking ahead of hosting the Champions League final tonight, the ITV presenter Adrian Chiles said that the biggest English clubs cannot match the vocal support produced by fans in other parts of Europe and appealed to clubs to consider lowering ticket prices.
Calum Clark is a doubt for England's tour of Uruguay and Argentina after an ankle injury ruled him out of Saturday's Aviva Premiership final.
Stuart Lancaster has been formally set the challenge of leading England into the 2015 Rugby World Cup as one of the two top-ranked nations on the planet.
Hugh Dennis has revealed his surprise when the contents of his stolen wallet were posted to his home.
David Walliams got fruity for Britain's Got More Talent's last David V Goliath challenge - apple bobbing.
Matthew Macfadyen has said he could't wait to get back into his bowler hat for the new series of Ripper Street.
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