Until a few years ago I never saw squirrels in Belfast. Then they started to appear in small numbers in the Ormeau Park. Now they are proliferating and this one has become a regular visitor to our garden.
Archive for December, 2009
A Visitor
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gerry, we hardly knew you ..
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The disclosure by Gerry Adams that his father was a paedophile and a thug has come against the background of a countrywide sense of shock at abuse within the Catholic church. Now the hierarchies of two historic institutions within the same community are under suspicion. The Catholic church and the IRA have a long history [...]
Unto Us a Child ….
Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My excuse is that there was no rehearsal and I was working with children. Rev Chris Hudson roped me into his Nativity Play at All Souls Belfast and this is how it went.
The Launch
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is me flanked by a couple of bright lights, Fiona and Sheila, from my memoir class at the launch of Under His Roof last week.
Who Needs Bishops?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Catholic church is in disgrace. We do not know how many priests have molested children but we know that hundreds did. The old argument put up in defence of the church, that a child was in no greater danger from a priest than from any other type of person, is now invalidated. Children were [...]
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This is the blog of my journalism and recordings, with some extracts from my books too. I tend to sound off on Northern Ireland Politics and Culture. Some of the work here will be recent journalism, articles that have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph or elsewhere, but there is a lot of material going back a couple of years now, so please hang around and browse. Malachi
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