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How to get it right – and very wrong – at a funeral

08.03.2025 8

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Pat Mcart

My rows with John Hume and a lament for the passing of ‘the local rag’

22.02.2025 10

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Pat Mcart

That ‘golden era’ when sins of the flesh dominated our lives

09.02.2025 10

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Pat Mcart

When life’s big decisions are made for you

I have a friend in Australia. He left Derry on a bitterly cold day in January 1974, to arrive about 36 hours later in the blistering heat of summer...

18.12.2024 3

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Pat Mcart

My dreams of a golden America have turned to rust

My mother’s best friend emigrated to the United States shortly after the end of the Second World War. She left behind a childhood on a remote farm...

09.12.2024 3

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Pat Mcart

The slow-creep of fascism is coming our way

The eldest son is a vice-principal of a school in east Donegal and he must have been really stuck during their recent careers day exhibition when...

26.10.2024 3

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Pat Mcart

That old British hypocrisy is still going strong

I was watching ‘Bombing Brighton: The Plot To Kill Thatcher’ on the BBC this week. It’s already been done a million times so I am not going to...

12.10.2024 10

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Pat Mcart

Smell the roses, drink the wine and love the family

Edmund Coyle was born in the little village of Carrigart in Co Donegal but for some odd reason after his father died, his mother took himself and...

28.09.2024 3

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Pat Mcart

Follett, Clarkson and those halcyon days of yore...

After studying philosophy and politics at University College London, Ken Follett went back to Wales to work on his local newspaper. Not finding the...

14.09.2024 1

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Pat Mcart

Lies, untruths and why the so-called golden era had its problems too

Alain Delon died on August 18 at the ripe old age of 88. He was the most famous French actor of his generation. It is said his life mirrored some...

31.08.2024 4

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Pat Mcart

Celebrating the story and the stories of a great Derry woman

My wife says I have an awful habit: that I keep putting things off, I’m a procrastinator. And she’s right. I had heard that Marie White wasn’t well...

20.08.2024 3

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Pat Mcart

Topping the Olympic table for hypocrisy and amorality

Is everyone lying and only Israel can be relied on to tell the truth? Is that it? Amnesty lying? Médecins Sans Frontiéres? UNWRA? The International...

07.08.2024 2

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Pat Mcart