A privilege to have worked with Rev Harold Good and Red Stripe Press/Orpen on this exciting revealing book.

Just a little reminder that there are still tickets available for my Conversation with Baroness Nuala O'Loan in #TheSaintPatrickCentre next Friday evening Oct 23 at 7.30 pm. Lady O'Loan, first ever @PoliceServiceNI Ombudsman is one of the most courageous public figures in these islands & well known as a prominent Catholic layperson, not least through @IrishCathNews columns. Her appearance @OmaghBombingInq last week & this w/e's #NationalAssembly @synodalpathway make her visit to D'patrick @DownandConnor all the more timely. A privilege to have her as our guest in the Centre. Hope you can join us. Phone 028 4461 9000 for tickets at £10. – at Edenderry, Northern Ireland

What a joy to witness St Brigids GAC @Naomhbridclg make history by winning @AontroimGAA SFC title over Rossa at Corrigan Park this p.m. Massive CONGRATS to all who made it possible. What an incalculable contribution this Club makes to the common good in its area #GAA

Shocked & deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Conor Bradford RIP my friend & deeply cherished incredibly gifted former @BBCNewsNI @bbcradioulster team mate. The Sony Gold we won together for our special Sunday Newsbreak programme on politcal scandal in the Republic c. the time of Mary Robinson's victory is just one happy memory of great times with Conor who will be terribly missed. Heartfelt condolences to his loved ones. Remembering him & them on pilgrimage.🙏 – at Assisi, Umbria

youtu.be/FuPQKqvRg_U?is=32Pm… Thanks @ChiefConPSNI & all who attended #TheSaintPatrickCentre Conversation. Clear we have exceptional leader of @PoliceServiceNI who commands respect & deserves a hearing. Listen in one go or in chunks. Next up Baroness O'Loan Fri Oct 23. Make a date! – at Belfast, Northern Ireland

A Conversation not to be missed. Marking 25 years of @PoliceServiceNI & #TheSaintPatrickCentre @ChiefConPSNI Jon Boutcher QPM joins me this Thursday Sept 24 at 7.30 pm. Get your ticket now. #peelers @StephenNolan @BBCNewsNI – at Edenderry, Northern Ireland

A brilliant primer for my Conversation with @ChiefConPSNI Jon Boutcher #TheSaintPatrickCentre is #peelers #nolan : @StephenNolan ’s masterly & courageous must watch @BBCiPlayer TV series on frontline policing in NI. From police chase to pepper spray & tenderly attending the most vulnerable drug addict. A landmark production portraying the work of our police officers as you’ve never before. No wonder it's been recommissioned & I’d be surprised if it doesn’t get top awards. It will certainly inform my Chief Constable on Thurs 24th Sept. Book your ticket now. @BBCNewsNI @UTVNews @irish_news @BelTel @News_Letter @BelfastLive @PoliceServiceNI

Looking forward to my Conversation with Jon Boutcher QPM Chief Constable @PoliceServiceNI #TheSaintPatrickCentre Downpatrick on Thursday September 24 at 7.30 pm. So much to talk to him about! Book now to avoid disappointment. – at Ballyscullion, Northern Ireland

I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Stephen Walker RIP. Journalist, author, historian, broadcaster and delightful colleague in our @BBCNewsNI @bbcradioulster days Stephen was a Titan and his death leaves a terrible void. The courage he showed in battling illhealth in recent years when he wrote those magisterial biographies of Hume & Trimble was truly inspirational Heartfelt condolences to his wife, family and loved ones. 🙏🕯

I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Bryan Gallagher RIP, the former Principal of Saint Mary’s Primary School, Mullymesker in Cleenish Parish, Arney in Co. Fermanagh where I was a pupil from 1960 until 1966. As I wrote in a newspaper article about Bryan back in 2014: “Apart from my late parents, no other person had as great an influence on my formation and I will always be in his debt for showing me the way in developing a relationship with God, knowing the difference between right and wrong, taking pride in my Irish identity, nurturing a sense of place and getting to know about the wider world.” That article was published in “The Irish Catholic” on December 4th 2014 and is reproduced with their kind permission below my separate tribute in my Facebook account. It is also available via AI. I extend my heartfelt condolences to his children Declan, Garvan, Ciara, Bryan Óg & Riana and to all his family and other loved ones. I last had the privilege of meeting Bryan at the funeral of Maeve (née O’Hare) his beloved wife just ten weeks or so ago back in May when although evidently frail he greeted me with his customary smile and warmth. Bryan was a Fermanagh Renaissance man and one felt he was a person who would have excelled in whatever career he had embarked on. After Saint Mary’s he distinguished himself as founding headmaster of Saint Aidan’s High School, Derrylin and then in another of my former schools, Saint Joseph’s College, Enniskillen. After his retirement as a headmaster he embarked on a new career as an author and broadcaster and his voice became familiar to listeners to the BBC both here and across the water and on RTE. As a producer in religious affairs with @bbcradioulster in Belfast I knew at firsthand how his distinctive contributions to Thought for the Day were valued by my editorial colleagues and by our audiences. Master Gallagher, as I knew him as a young boy, made an immense contribution to the Common Good in the place where God placed him and he will be greatly missed. May God have mercy on his gentle soul. – at Edenderry, Northern Ireland

A great joy to be present at the opening of the Clonard Solemn Novena @ClonardMBelfast @DownandConnor one of the great demonstrations of faith in these islands. Welcoming the packed congregation in the church and online Fr Brendan Kelly CSsR, the Rector said Clonard is a place where all are welcome. "Each of us is called by God to be a sign of Hope in today's world" ...a world of great uncertainty, he said, that "is confronted by war, terrorism and racism." Amen. #Clonard #Novena

So sorry to hear of the death of Sir Desmond Rea RIP. Heartfelt condolences to his wife Maeve & family. Des features prominently in Dr David Gallagher's book on the Methodist contribution to peacemaking. I was privileged to preside at its launch last week when I had my last chat with Des who will be terribly missed. 🙏

Join me in Conversation with intrepid reporter Eamonn Mallie in #TheSaintPatrickCentre on Thursday week. Eamonn will be signing copies of his bestselling memoir @MerrionPress and reflecting on an absorbing life that saw him lock horns with Margaret Thatcher, get Paisley to spill the beans on his sacking by the DUP and forge a fascinating relationship with Charles Haughey.

A big thank you to @SJAMcBride & #TheSaintPatrickCentre for a most engaging & illuminating Conversation last night. Sam's book (with Fintan O'Toole) about the pros & cons of a united Ireland is a must read. Next up Eamonn Mallie @MallieDotCom Thurs May 28 7.30 pm. on his life & times captured in his brilliant memoir. Keep the date.

Just a little reminder all welcome to join my Conversation with top journalist/author @SJAMcBride next Thurs April 30 in #TheSaintPatrickCentre at 7.30 pm. Sam will be signing copies of his books "For and Against a United Ireland" & "Burned." Looking forward to it very much.

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All welcome to join my Conversation with @SJAMcBride about that book @RIAdawson and much more in #TheSaintPatrickCentre Downpatrick Thurs April 30th 7.30 pm. Sam will be signing copies of it & "Burned" @MerrionPress that exposed "cash for ash" scandal.

Congratulations Rory McIlroy on your amazing historic back to back victories at #TheMasters. You are a genuis and a fantastic example. We are all so proud of you.

I'm just thrilled to congratulate my good friend, poet Jim McElroy @JimBMcElroy on capturing a Top 10 prize in the 2025 National Poetry Competition @PoetrySociety. What a feat! 1 of 10 selected from 9,600 poets & 21, 250 poems from 113 countries! share.google/kDJGnlLY6f2tKAP…