Eamonn Andrews

There is a double irony in the revived popularity of Dominic Behan’s Come Out Ye Black and Tans, a song that briefly topped the British singles charts(...)

“Oh, another thing I shouldn’t have done: I lay on a bed of nails,” Seán Bán Breathnach (SBB) confesses, alluding to the time when, for the gaiety of (...)

The BBC is to revive the children’s TV show Crackerjack, 35 years after it was last aired. The broadcaster announced that the programme, which origina(...)

As we mark the 20th anniversary of the Omagh bombing, I am drawn back to the summer of 1998. A new mother living in the US, I had taken my baby daught(...)

When the news of Fred Cogley’s death at the age of 82 came last week sports fans, most particularly rugby fans, must have felt that they had lost some(...)

This has been a difficult time for elitist media snowflakes. We peer at one another through monocles while harpsichord music spills across the Regency(...)

Here is a memory of Donegal poet Madge Herron. We are walking to the tube station in Camden Town, her recalling how shortly after the second World (...)

Paul Howard, writer/creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Football is the game of the people. It’s played everywhere in the world. I know we get excited ar(...)

David Coleman, who has died aged 87, was a major figure, perhaps the major figure, of that distant era when television broadcasts of Britain’s nationa(...)

Trevor Danker, who has died aged 74, was for many years a social columnist with the Sunday Independent (...)