THERE are league victories, and then there are championship-winning performances. Tír Conaill Harps produced the latter recemtly as they successfully defended their league crown, overcoming Dunedin Connollys with a superb display of attacking football to secure back-to-back league titles.

GROWING up in East Kilbride in the 1960s was a bit surreal. As the first new town in Scotland, it was a bit of a social experiment and, by extension, its residents were the guinea pigs.

IT'S NOT every day we hear that a Glasgow Irishman has received the highest honour within the world of science, but that recently came true.

DUNEDIN Connollys retained their Men’s Senior League title following a dramatic one-point victory over Glasgow Gaels in a tightly contested final at Peterson Park in Yoker.

AFTER two years away, Glasgow Irish AFC are back! The amateur football club had eight great years of ups and downs, with silverware and cup finals won and lost, but at the start of the 2024/25 season the club took the devastating decision to fold with player recruitment being a big issue. With an aging team and no fresh players coming in it proved to be too difficult to continue.

IN 2007, I skipped the afterparty celebrations of a wedding in Gweedore, Donegal and hitched a lift to Derry to watch the Senior County Football Final at Celtic Park, where the success starved club of my birth, Glenullin, was facing Bellaghy, the record title holders.

JULY 2026 marks an incredibly special date for the organisers, volunteers and pilgrims, past and present of an incredibly special group of people—St Margaret of Scotland Youth Group (SMSYG)—as they celebrate their Golden Jubilee.

KEEPING on the theme of 18th century rogues, perched atop Montpelier Hill in the Dublin Mountains, the Hellfire Club is one of Ireland’s most famous historic ruins.

‘AN IRISHMAN'S heart is nothing but his imagination,’ observed George Bernard Shaw (GBS). In the history of literature, few writers have accumulated more honours than the extraordinary Dubliner.

PRESIDENT Catherine Connolly made her first visit to Britain as she met with Irish community groups from across the country and was welcomed by King Charles in London.

IN A season like no other, the club whose corporate logo is ‘A club like no other,’ again broke new football ground by holding the first ever football history conference specifically dedicated to discussing one club—Celtic FC.

A GLASGOW native now living in Donegal helped coach the Republic of Ireland Veterans Football team to glory at the recent FIFA Super Vets World Championships in Copenhagen.

wonderful man Martin O’Neill and the fight-to-the-end Celtic squad who won the double this season against all the odds, with just about everyone—bar Hibs fans—rooting against us!

A RESTRUCTURING of games has meant that Ceann Creige’s camógs and hurlers have had limited competitive matches to date.

THE Irish navvies who blasted, picked, shovelled and drilled their way through the hard rock of the Scottish Highlands to bring the railway from Fort William to Mallaig in 1907, are being recalled in a series of events to mark the anniversary of the opening of the railway this summer.

‘MOl an óige agus tiocfadh siad,’ sin a deir an seanfhocal i nGaeilge. Seanfhocal a d’úsáid mé anseo thart fán am seo anuraidh toisc go mbíonn sé ar m’intinn achan bliain agus muid ag ullmhú fá choinne Campa Samhraidh Chonradh na Gaeilge Glaschú. Thig linn an seanfhocal sin a úsáid i gcomhthéacs ar bith, is dócha, ach déarfainn go bhfuil sé ríthábhachtach nuair a táthar ag caint maidir le teanga, oidhreacht agus féiniúlacht.

FOR hundreds of years traditional music has been a huge part of Irish culture. With the exception of a period of decline in the 1940s to 1960s driven by the Church exerting control over ‘too much enjoyment’ of the people, it has largely been in a healthy state.

I AM tempted to think that the recent intervention by Dave Scott of Nil By Mouth to demand that police officers declare their membership of various organisations is more about keeping his organisation relevant than it is about challenging the real impact of racism and bigotry in Scotland as it manifests itself in the sphere of policing and justice.

JAMES Connolly's life and legacy was celebrated in both Edinburgh and Glasgow recently via a special commemorative event and a brand new play.

DUNEDIN Connollys and Tír Conaill Harps will be looking to make it two-in-a-row in their respective Senior and Intermediate League Finals, with both teams having been the stand-out performers in their competitions.