Well, I joked about it but it might actually come true. The Northern Bank raid might just be made into a movie. Author Charles Goodwin, who is currently writing a book on the robbery, is in talks with producers interested in turning the crime into a movie. It’s hardly worth sneering at, is it?

It has been proposed to drag an iceberg [registration cheat] from Norway to the the Belfast shipyard where the Titanic was built to help put Belfast’s redeveloped Titanic Quarter on the tourist map by 2008. I kid you not. “The iceberg could become a symbol of hope as it melts.” Glad it’s not my tax [...]