FÉILE AN PHOBAIL will celebrate its 30th year in 2017. To mark the festival’s extraordinary journey, a project based at Queen’s University Belfast has embarked on an ambitious journey of its own – to chart the history of the festival in a book, an online archive and an exhibition that will open later this year. Free article

West Belfast has been transformed and Sinn Féin has been at the heart of that Free article

WHEN LIVERPOOL and former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp said confidence is “a little flower that is easily crushed” he was really talking about irony – the kind of irony that produces events that are magnificent in the moment, and are gone in an instant. These days it seems we need these kinds of distractions, magnificent moments that light up our lives, give meaning to our existence and substance to our pitiful futures. Premium service article