In this week’s Irish Post – Out Now
- Tributes to popular Westmeath horse racing trainer Owen Brennan
- Birmingham to get ‘legal St Patrick’s Day Lock-in’
- Interview with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis
- Would The Lance Armstrong Of GAA Be Caught? Eamonn O’Molloy thinks not
IN NEWS
Racing great laid to rest
Tributes have been paid to popular Westmeath horse racing trainer Owen Brennan, whose funeral has taken place in Derbyshire. Irish jockey Jason Maguire, who won the 2011 Grand National, said: “Owen would always talk to the jockeys at the track. The atmosphere he created will be missed.”
St Patrick’s Day lock-in
Birmingham’s Pubwatch committee have agreed a legal lock-in following this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade to keep trouble makers away. The initiative will be enforced by the West Midlands police force.
Down Irish Town way
We visit the new Irish World Heritage Centre as it hosts its first big event of the year – a fundraiser for the Full Irish Radio show. Irish Post photographer Danny Claffey was on hand to capture all the entertainment of the evening.
From bootleg to the big screen
Hollywood is in line to tell the story of Galway’s Ambrose Gordon – the London Irish entrepreneur who in the 1980s brought GAA to the masses in Britain through his pirated videotapes. We chat to the Irish screenwriter involved and find out who could be in line to play the small-time chancer turned video kingpin.
Cash boost for Luton charity
An Irish charity in Luton has been awarded over £180,000 in British Government funding to extend its outreach work to homeless people across Bedfordshire. The grant follows the launch of StreetLink, a Government-funded initiative that allows members of the public to connect homeless people with local advice and services.
Northern unrest
Lord Dubs reveals how six years ago a British Irish Parliamentary Assembly report on the needs of young people in the North of Ireland predicted the unrest what has blighted the region over the last two months. “Our report made warnings but sadly there was a change of administration and the report findings fell by the wayside,” he says.
A class apart
Our special feature on the increasing number of young Irish teachers being forced to work abroad. We meet some of those who emigrated to Britain in search of jobs as they talk candidly about the challenges they face, the anger they feel and their belief that there’s no return to Ireland in sight.
IN ENTERTAINMENT
The greatest actor in screen history?
Interview with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis ahead of the release of Oscar favourite, Lincoln
Bandit Territory
Review and pics from The Rubberbandits debut London shows
Lord of the Tardis
We speak with Doctor Who legend Sylvester McCoy on growing up in Ireland and life as a Hobbit
IN SPORT
Early throw-in
February date for London GAA championships fixed
Would The Lance Armstrong Of GAA Be Caught?
Our columnist Eamonn O’Molloy thinks not. Essential reading
The road to Croker
London champions St Gabriels and Manchester’s finest Fullen Gaels are one step from All-Ireland finals. We talk to both camps
