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FROM the lowest of lows in Nowlan Park six days previous, Antrim's hurlers produced an heroic performance at Corrigan Park on Saturday to stun Wexford and grab their first points of this year's Leinster Hurling Championship.

IN 2014 Sinn Féin brought forward a Dáil motion calling on the government to “officially recognise the State of Palestine, on the basis of the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as the capital".

ANDREÉ MURPHY: Sean Brown case a symbol of disgrace

IT was not without irony that Simon Harris’ words in apology for state failings regarding the Stardust disaster travelled up the M1 to Belfast courts where families of the other state’s violations sat in a race against time to secure some accounting for direct state violence and collusion.

JUDE COLLINS: Geography knowledge dependent on... geography

ON July 21, 2000, the then Tánaiste and leader of the Progressive Democrats party, Mary Harney, addressed the American Bar Association in Dublin. In the course of that speech she made a claim that still resonates decades later: “Geographically we are closer to Berlin than Boston. Spiritually we are probably a lot closer to Boston than Berlin."

SQUINTER: The ballad of the Larne mattresses

The Guinness Book of Records sent a team along to Larne,To see if there was any truth in an oft-told local yarn.It was said that in an open space a bonfire huge was hewn,That stretched from one street to the next and halfway to the moon. With clipboards, pens and measuring tapes, they went about their task,And when the sun began to set a man was heard to ask:‘Is this the biggest you’ve ever seen, is Larne the planet’s best?Is Craigyhill about to be with trophy and honour blessed?’

St Gerard's pupils celebrate 'Exploring Cultures Week' with India the focus

PUPILS at St Gerard's School on the Blacks Road have been celebrating Indian culture this week as part of week-long learning experience.

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin headlines Gig for Gaza at the Beehive

AWARD-winning folk musician Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin will headline a Belfast gig in aid of Gaza this weekend.

THE WEEK IN VIEW: The Larne bonfire safe word is 'mattresses'

I’VE an apology to make to the Craigyhill Bonfire and Cultural Facebook Page. Like many people with little or no knowledge of bonfire culture, I thought that when a thousand pishy, mouldy mattresses were delivered to the Larne bonfire site by container ship and Chinook they were going to be... well... burnt.