A personal message from News Letter editor Ben Lowry

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Sep 9, 2023

Ben Lowry

Editor

My uncle does not share my sense that Septembers in Northern Ireland were always grim. He remembers them as often sunny, and having been born in the 1930s he has been through more of them than me.

But even if he is right, this is exceptional weather. Yesterday it hit 30C, our hottest ever September day

Last weekend naturists got good weather to bare all in the sea

The wife of the tycoon, newspaper owner and rugby player Tony O'Reilly, the Greek shipping heiress and equestrian owner Chryss Goulandris has sadly died at only 73

In opinion, here is Owen Polley on the appeasement of Sinn Fein and an editorial saying Hilary Benn might not be as bad as some unionists would fear

This week Wallace Thompson said that an all Ireland was inevitable and we debated it on radio. Here is my follow-up article to that debate

At the wonderful Camerata concert recently I was sitting beside a Russian couple. She was also Estonian and, extraordinarily, had seen Barry Douglas win the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986

And here is an interview with singer songwriter Paul Brady who has collaborated with a wealth of musical big hitters

Ben Lowry

Editor

Ben Lowry: Northern Ireland faces big challenges but is not on its way out of the United Kingdom