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Proposals, Pearse Park and prizewinners
GAA President Jarlath Burns was in attendance recently as Scotland GAA launched its new strategic plan. Following on from the previous plan, Alba 2030 was launched at Clydebank Community Sports Hub (right), with the ambition to build a county that is sustainable, connected, inclusive and equipped for the future.
‘Oscar of the Trad Music World’ cherished by Glasgow’s own Kathleen
CHERISH the Ladies were performing on the Joanie Madden riverboat cruise down the Seine, Paris early in June when the call came in from TG4 telling them they had won Grúpa Ceoil (music group) at the Gradam Ceoil Awards 2026.
Police Scotland under fire over mutual-aid
NEWLY published minutes have revealed that senior Police Scotland officers discussed controversial mutual-aid arrangements with the PSNI during a meeting with Justice Secretary Neil Gray, as Garvaghy Road residents in Portadown faced the renewed prospect of an Orange Order parade being forced through their community.
Features
Writer with the quiet voice has a lot to say
‘EVERY writer has something in their childhood that nourishes them while seeming to be very damaging at the time,’ Wexford’s Colm Tóibín observed. The man from Enniscorthy overcame the silence induced by a childhood stammer, brought on by the death of his father when he was only 12, to become one of Ireland’s greatest living writers.
The place where Ireland’s history is written in stone
FEW places capture the turbulent history of Ireland quite like Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Established in 1832, this vast burial ground has become the final resting place of politicians, revolutionaries, writers, soldiers and ordinary Dubliners. Behind its imposing headstones and peaceful avenues lie stories of rebellion, political division, body-snatching and attacks on national monuments.
Painful, powerful and proud parallels
COMMON Threads, the recent talk by Dr Manal Shqair and Dr Niamh Coffey on Palestinian and Irish women’s activism and resistance in their countries’ struggles against colonial occupation and oppression attracted a large, appreciative audience who engaged with the subject and asked pertinent questions.
Comment & Opinion
No going down this road ever again
DRUMCREE 2026, and the death rattle of the old order. Trapped in their own tribal, elemental histories the Orange Order with their attendant clamjamfry of bigots and racists face a people who have risen and are in no mood to stand down.
A summer of culture and collaborations
THIS has been an active and varied summer for the Consulate, spanning cultural collaborations, political engagement and support for a pioneering internship programme between Ireland and Scotland in the renewable energy sector.
The Fleadh was a celebration of all our island’s music
THE All-Ireland Fleadh took place last month in Belfast for a celebration of Irish culture that was on a completely different level to anything that had gone before.
As Gaeilge
A bheith i measc na nGael eile
AN MHÍ seo bhí mé i measc ‘na Gaeil Eile’ nuair a bhí an Mòd Naisiúnta a bhí ar siúl anseo i nGlaschú. Muna bhfuil a fhios agat tá an Mòd cosúil le hOireachtas na Gaeilge nó Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann—b’fhéidir meascán don bheirt acu i mbealach.
Seachtain cultúrtha, áthasach agus stairiúil
BHUEL, a chairde, tá súil agam go raibh samhradh maith agaibh. Ceann measartha maith ó thaobh na haimsire de a bhí againn, nach raibh? ‘An rud is annamh is iontach’ mar a deirtear!
Níl a fhios acu dada, mar is gnách
BHUEL, a chairde, an mbeadh iontas ar bith oraibh dá mbeinn ag rá libh go bhfuil meancóg amaideach déanta ag Reform UK? Ní bheadh, is dócha, ach seans go mbeadh iontas ort go mbaineann a gcuid seafóid—an uair seo—leis an Ghaeilge.
Sport
Ceann Creige reflect on successes
AS WE enter the final part of the year it allows for reflection on what was another successful year for Ceann Creige GAA across all its teams.
A flying start to the year for Glasgow Uni
FROM a taster session in Clydebank to a winning tour of Berlin, Glasgow University Gaelic Football Club has made a flying start to 2026/27.
Harps and Connollys Ladies enjoy final successes
THE Ladies teams of Tír Conaill Harps and Dunedin Connollys celebrated two great wins in the Scottish Junior Shield and the North of Britain Championship respectively.
Entertainment
Irish stars shine at The Fringe
MORTAL Sin takes us on a journey of friendship and growth between the two characters Colm and Peggy in 1960s Ireland. JFK has just been shot, and the two young friends believe this calls for a day off school. They make naive attempts to resist the system and defy their elders. Though the young friends share moments of light-hearted play, their thoughts and actions are ultimately subsumed by the pervasive Catholic mindset of the era.
St James the Great CCÉ take part in Royal National Mòd
THE St James the Great Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann had the honour of being invited to take part in a Fringe event at the annual Royal National Mòd, which this year took place in Glasgow from October 9 to 17.
New book paints a vivid picture of the late Martin McGuinness
THE Columba Club in Coatbridge gave a warm welcome to Jim McVeigh for the launch of his recent publication Our Martin.
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