| | | | | | Sep 9, 2023 | | | | | | 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 | |
| | | | | | | | | | Soaring Northern Ireland temperatures break 120 year old record, says Met Office | | | | | | | | | | | | The Met Office says that temperatures in Northern Ireland appear to have broken a record which has stood for almost 120 years. | | | | | | Read more + | |
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