I’m writing this in advance of the Louth v Mayo game at the weekend.

The news last week that yet another young man has died in ‘a scooter accident’ increases even more the numbers dying on our roads as a growing litany of loved ones are left bereft and sometimes broken as they strive to negotiate a path through what ...

Well now, Micheál Martin is looking for trouble. I offered him a bit of good advice last week suggesting that, as President of the European Union, he should commence the dialogue that would bring Russia in from the cold.

Unexpectedly, Mayo and Louth, two counties most impatiently itching for an All-Ireland victory – Mayo for 75 years and Louth for 69 – face each other in Croke Park on Saturday at 6pm for a semi-final showdown.

Visit the surrounds of an abandoned Ox Mountain cottage and you will find the remains of an old fruit garden; an old apple tree perhaps or some overgrown blackcurrant bushes.

The nature of Keir Starmer’s departure from Downing Street was surprising, but it has brought one of his final acts as Prime Minister into even sharper focus - banning social media for under-16s.

The question I’ve been asked more than any other since announcing this would be my final Western People column from Los Angeles was a surprisingly-simple variation of: “So, Liam… did the acting work out?” Fair question.

Meta made $27 billion in the first three months of this year. Then it sacked 350 people in Dublin. I’m not saying there’s a connection, but I’m not not saying it either.

He gave nothing away. That was always the trick of him - the gift, the brand, the entire act. While the rest of Ulster Unionism foamed and thumped and quoted Leviticus at the weather, Jeffrey Donaldson did the quiet thing. He folded his hands.

Though I am old with wandering  Through hollow lands and hilly lands,  I will find out where she has gone,  And kiss her lips and take her hands.