Those otherwise engaged during Saturday’s Tyrone-Monaghan game and unfamiliar with the emerging crop of Tyrone footballers will have been perplexed by seeing the name of Tiernan McCann listed among the trending topics on Twitter late on Saturday evening.

CRIME fiction is regarded as a good vehicle for reflecting the times in which it is written.

“It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon.”

It would go on forever, wouldn’t it? After all, look at the value of property. Up went the price of your house: Boom. Then there was a stage 4. This was the big dump where everyone got dumped, and dumped upon

Irish author Gene Kerrigan has won the Crime Writers’ Association 2012 Gold Dagger award for his gritty crime novel, The Rage.

THE great crime novelist Raymond Chandler advised, “When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand”.

SO the unions were led up the garden path by promises of an agreement with the Government and then ditched when they called off the pre-budget day of action.

BY 1990, there was a general consensus that the office of president was worthy but dull, and there was no sign of debate or discussion in the 1980s about the possibilities of expanding the role of the president or a sense that its profile could or should be increased.

SOME economists have been hard at work this year trying to convince us that the Celtic Tiger is only taking a rest and could be back roaring at some stage in the future, a notion encapsulated in the title of Marc Coleman’s new book The Best is Yet to Come.