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Trials of Leeds Fan

Being a football supporter is tough. No. Let me correct that. Being a Leeds United supporter is tough. Last week…

Jonathan Raban is a writer I’ve always found worth reading. His book Bad Land was a beautiful telling of the…

There’s only one way to come down from the match at the Millennium Stadium today (and to still the nerves…

Another leg of a fabulous sporting week ends with a wonderful victory for Munster over Biarritz. It was heart-stopping stuff…

One of the things we got talking about on this overnight conference was about how the Loyalist community has been…

I spent the last 36 hours or so in a nice hotel in Ballymena with a bunch of colleagues and…

It surprised me that it never made the news. A cannonball on the fifth of May blew Dublin away. It…

Being wired is a great thing. Especially when you’re winning. Tonight, during the game, I sat with the laptop IMing…

More about exile. What about those who remain committed to the established church but whose spiritual nourishment and formation takes…

Still trying to make sense of this idea of the church in exile. I know it’s not original, but it…