Daily Archives: May 16, 2014

Hugh Smyth (1941-2014)

  Today, with Helen Brooker (Upper Top Right), I  attended the funeral of my friend and colleague former Belfast city councillor and Progressive Unionist Party leader Alderman Hugh Smyth. Helen’s husband David had been Hugh’s surgeon and looked after his palliative care Hugh, … Continue reading

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Bangor Light of the World, 22: The Plan of St Gall

    Too frail to accompany his abbot, Gallus, or as we know him now, St Gall, left Columbanus’s mission in 612 AD to stay in Swabia and live in a retreat by the Steinach. At this site in 720, … Continue reading

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