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Some of the past, present and future of Omagh writers and photographers are to be celebrated and acknowledged at the fifteenth Benedict Kiely Weekend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at the Strule Arts Centre Omagh. The title for the event this year is ‘And As I...
‘My mama don’t like you and she likes everyone,’ sings Justin Bieber in one of his recent hits, describing a slightly less complex mother son dynamic than the turbulent one depicted in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This is just one of the reasons why recent research has...
The South West College recently launched the Foundation Diploma End of Year Show, which will run until Saturday 28th May. The exhibition features students from the Ulster University Foundation Degree in Design, showcasing the students work in a variety of different disciplines, and including work such...
The nature of football means that when it captivates people in their youth it rarely lets go, and their relationships with it never really grow up. No matter how they move on with everything else in their lives, no matter what they achieve in other...
Two of the Premier League’s stand out players this season, Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy and Deli Alli of Tottenham Hotspur, have made headlines in the last few days for all the wrong reasons, with the former receiving a further one game ban for verbally abusing...
The Royal family have made the headlines this week for two very different reasons. Firstly, Prince William and his family were accused of going on a ‘top secret’ skiing holiday when pictures of them in a luxury Alpine resort were only released after they returned...
There's more than one way to make a film. According to director Alejandro G Iñárritu, The Revenant was the happy accident which followed a series of bad and irresponsible decisions. A feat of perseverance, the film was shot authentically across Canada, the United States and...
A year or so ago we knew Donald Trump as the Chairman of the Trump Organisation, owner of prime real-estate all over the world, including several hundred thousand square feet of Manhattan; or as the face behind the American Apprentice – America’s version of Alan...
Rich one week, poor the next. Replying to invitations with: ‘I’ll know later if I can afford it, I’m waiting on a bet’. Having an altogether strange understanding of the Latvian football league. These are all traits of the student gambler, a persona becoming more...
It’s sixty years since Rosa Parks, a key figure of the American civil rights movement, made the seemingly simple act of refusing to give up her seat on a bus. It remains a standout moment in American history: a peaceful black woman, tired after a...
