Category: St Andrew’s Saltire

• Older But No Wiser

  

  Steeple Veterans flute band is a part-time band drawing on “veterans” or “old boys” of the Steeple Defenders (which used to have a board nearby). The “older but no wiser” tag-line is exemplified by the fact that they dress up in costume each 12th for the return leg of the day– in 2023 they adopted…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-09

  Antrim/Randalstown, cultural, flute band, printed board/placard, PUL, St Andrew’s Saltire, UK royalty, Union Flag

• Kai Johansen’s Bar

  

  Kai Johansen was a Danish international who played for Rangers from 1965-1970, most famously scoring the only goal in the 1966 Scottish Cup final against Celtic (WP). He retired in 1970 and went on to manage two teams in South Africa, as well as owning businesses, including pubs and tanning salons, in Denmark and Scotland…

  Extramural Activity

  2024-06-02

  cultural, flute band, Newtownabbey, printed board/placard, PUL, soccer, St Andrew’s Saltire, Ulster Banner

• Highland Fusiliers

  

  March 10th was the 52nd anniversary of the killings of three Highland Fusiliers, Dougald McCaughey and teen-aged brothers Joseph and John McCaig, who were drinking in a city centre pub and lured to their deaths in north Belfast at the hands of the (Provisional) IRA. The killings led to the resignation of NI prime minister…

  Extramural Activity

  2023-10-15

  British forces, Carrickfergus, funeral volley/graveside mourner, painted wall, physical force, PUL, St Andrew’s Saltire