“As a cub all I wanted was to play for Ulster and Ireland. “To fulfil that (international) goal meant standing for the Irish national anthem in Lansdowne Road. So that song was part of my drea ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

In The Stairwell, the wonderful poem he sent me, the Great War songs are sounding through ... His poetry captured the essence of a deep Ulster Protestantism, steadfastly loyal and sanguine ...

He also loved books about emigration to the US - and often went to the Ulster American Folk Park ... On Christmas Eve 1997, Alan and Claire, from a Protestant background, went to Midnight Mass ...

There’s no proof he actually sang this song but if he did ... Man’s A Man made him the darling of radical newspapers like Ulster’s Northern Star, which supported the 1798 United Irishmen ...

He insists he's never lost his 'Protestant work ethic', and thinks ... he audition for the Riverside Theatre at the University of Ulster. At 13, he was the Artful Dodger in Oliver!.

Zebre pulled off a huge shock as they defeated Ulster 15-14 to win for the very first time in Belfast and stun the hosts. The Italians thoroughly deserved the win, leading 15-0 before Ulster were ...

Ulster's hopes of securing a play-off spot in the URC suffered a major blow as they were beaten at home 15-14 by strugglers Zebre. The home side were left stunned as the Italian outfit claimed a ...

Forward Lorcan McLoughlin will make his first start for Ulster in Sunday's United Rugby Championship game against Zebre at Ravenhill. McLoughlin made his debut off the bench against South African ...

On air, he proposed "solving" the Northern Ireland problem by giving the Ulster Protestants money to relocate to mainland Britain, meaning Northern Ireland would become entirely Catholic.