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A Great summer for St James
AN ATTENTIVE audience of family, friends and invited guests—including Theresa C Gallagher, chair of Comhaltas in Britain and Rosemarie Cassidy, chair of the Scottish Region of Comhaltas—enjoyed the St James the Great Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Branch’s annual summer concert in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow recently.
Newton, Darwin, Einstein... and John McCafferty
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.
Glasgow Irish AFC are back and ready for action
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.
Features
Tracking Ireland's railway history
IRELAND'S first railway was opened between Dublin and Kingstown—now Dún Laoghaire—in 1834, just nine years after the pioneering Stockton and Darlington opened for traffic. The Irish line made history as the world’s first commuter railway. Steam-powered, it was built to the standard British gauge of four feet eight-and-a-half inches between the rails and today’s modern, electric DART trains still use the route on their way to and from Greystones.
Hibs’ roots revival in Ireland continues
THE day after an uninspiring loss to Shamrock Rovers, my brother and I made our way by car to the cradle of the Hibernian Football Club—Ballingarry in County Limerick—to attend a service to commemorate the founder Canon Edward Joseph Hannan.
Love and longing for Irish roots that will never fade away
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.
Comment & Opinion
What will the legacy of the 2026 Commonwealth Games be?
IT'S BEEN 12 years since Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 23rd iteration of the event—the 2026 Glasgow games—has now kicked off again in the city, far sooner than anyone would have predicted back in 2014.
Time to peel back the layers of prejudice
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.
A song that reverberates through history
AS DERRYMAN Mickey Mullen reminded readers of The Irish Voice in these pages recently, and as Paul Brady’s song recalls, it can frequently be ‘nothing but the same old story’ when the Irish diaspora shows its face in Britain.
As Gaeilge
Níl a fhios acu dada, mar is gnách
BHUEL, a chairde, an mbeadh iontas ar bith oraibh dá mbeinn ag rá libh go bhfuil meancóg amaideach déanta ag Reform UK? Ní bheadh, is dócha, ach seans go mbeadh iontas ort go mbaineann a gcuid seafóid—an uair seo—leis an Ghaeilge.
Mol achan duine agus tiocfadh siad
‘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.
Is peil pholaitiúil arís é
AN DTIOCFADH linn dul fríd mí amháin gan conspóid leis an Ghaeilge ó thuaidh? Ní thig linn, de réir dealraimh! An mhí seo caite bhí mé ag scríobh faoin vótáil a bhí in Ollscoil na Banríona, i mBéal Feirste, chun fograíocht dátheangach a thabhairt ar ais san institiúid sin.
Sport
Hibs’ roots revival in Ireland continues
THE day after an uninspiring loss to Shamrock Rovers, my brother and I made our way by car to the cradle of the Hibernian Football Club—Ballingarry in County Limerick—to attend a service to commemorate the founder Canon Edward Joseph Hannan.
What will the legacy of the 2026 Commonwealth Games be?
IT'S BEEN 12 years since Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 23rd iteration of the event—the 2026 Glasgow games—has now kicked off again in the city, far sooner than anyone would have predicted back in 2014.
Back-to-back Intermediate League victories for Harps
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.
Entertainment
What will the legacy of the 2026 Commonwealth Games be?
IT'S BEEN 12 years since Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 23rd iteration of the event—the 2026 Glasgow games—has now kicked off again in the city, far sooner than anyone would have predicted back in 2014.
A Great summer for St James
AN ATTENTIVE audience of family, friends and invited guests—including Theresa C Gallagher, chair of Comhaltas in Britain and Rosemarie Cassidy, chair of the Scottish Region of Comhaltas—enjoyed the St James the Great Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Branch’s annual summer concert in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Glasgow recently.
It's been a great life to be Frank
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!
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