ONE of Ireland's leading folk and ballad singers, Myles Gaffney, will perform his debut Scottish gig a Grace's Irish Centre on Friday April 10.

SCOTLAND once again turned green for St Patrick’s Day, with events up and down the country bringing Irish communities across Scotland together as they shared their culture with wider Scottish society, but it was the second annual parade through the streets of Glasgow which once again provided the most high profile spectacle.

THE UK Government has announced that Philomena’s Law will be introduced to protect survivors of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes living in Britain from losing vital means-tested benefits after accepting compensation from the Irish government’s redress scheme.

Neither Here Nor There Written by CG Docherty Published by Levenford Publishing Price: £12.99 WHEN studying local history and creating family trees has never been so popular, it is often said ‘you have to know where you came from in order to know where you are going.’ Some questions people ask regularly here in Scotland: “Who do you think you are?” Are you somebody? “Who were your parents?” “Where did they work?” What is really surprising is that so many people haven’t a clue

AS THE clocks prepare to spring forward and the first whispers of summer holiday planning begin homes across Scotland, a new shadow is looming over the departure lounge as the ‘post-Brexit’ grace period is officially entering a more bureaucratic phase, with several major changes taking effect this year which are here to stay.

ANYONE reading this has either seen or heard of the film Reservoir Dogs. The classic mob movie features a gang of criminals stuck in a room waiting for information that never arrives which leads to increasing tension and a grand crescendo of operatic violence. What fewer people know is Quentin Tarantino’s gangster classic is simply Samuel Beckett’s Absurdist Play Waiting for Godot reimagined in a mobster setting.

DONEGAL Airport has evolved and grown to become an essential resource in Ireland’s travel hubs.

IT'S been an exciting time for everyone at Tír Conaill Harps with preparations for the new season well underway.

BORN in a Dublin cellar in 1776, Francis Higgins would swindle his way from lowly messenger boy all the way up to the top echelons of Dublin society, eventually becoming owner of the newspaper the Freemans Journal.

WHAT do Del Amitri, The Bluebells, The Speyside Sessions Group, L’Acoustica, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and East Park School in Glasgow have in common? Well, in short, Bryan Tolland.

A FEW months ago on my return from a long walk up the country, feeling damp and tired I soaked in a hot bath then afterwards turned on the TV to catch up with the Saturday football scores—mainly to see how Celtic were faring in one of their rare Saturday games.

AS CEANN Creige enters its seventh year as Scotland’s only hurling and camogie club, there is lots to look forward to and lots to reflect on.

IT WAS a tournament that encapsulated everything that makes Irish rugby both thrilling and agonising. Andy Farrell's side finished second in the 2026 Guinness Six Nations, claiming a Triple Crown, but ultimately falling just short of the championship title in the most dramatic fashion.

BHUEL, a chairde, tá súil agam go raibh craic agaibh thart fá Lá Fhéile Pádraig, cíbe rud a rinne sibh agus cíbe áit ina raibh sibh. Tá mé féin tuirseach tréigthe ar scór ar bith i ndiadhníos mó ná coicíse d’imeachtaí i rith Féile Pádraig Ghlaschú ach b’fhiú é mar bhí sé dochreidte maith a bheith ag ceiliúradh na Gaeilge an ár gcultúr agus ár n-oidhreacht le chéile.

ST JAMES the Great Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann recently visited Ireland to forge close links with two branches of the Irish cultural organisation, and it was music, music, music all the way.

WHEN we think of a kilted soldier, we almost definitely think of someone very different from Ian MacKenzie Kennedy. He may have had—at times—a feather in his bunnet and a kilt upon his knee, but MacKenzie Kennedy was no representation of the clichéd Scottish martial spirit. He was, from early 1918, a soldier in the Irish Republican Army.

WITH St Patrick’s Day approaching as I write this, I pondered the question: What does it mean to be Irish? And how do we define ourselves in modern society?

AS PAUL Brady once sang: “It’s nothing but the same old story.” And lately that line feels painfully accurate.

TO LAND in Donegal Airport is to rejoice in a truly spectacular panorama. Descending where the rugged landscape meets the crystal-clear Atlantic Ocean breathes new life into the soul of the golfer, the emigrant returnee, or the business traveller back from a hop over to Glasgow or Dublin.

MARTIN O’Neill opening up a Celtic team and charging at a league and cup double is something that older generations of supporters would have thought was a thing of the past, and younger ones would need to rely on history books for, but that unlikely scenario is the one which is striking fear into the hearts of Celtic’s direct rivals for the title.