Celtic plays tonight, and for a couple of hours, it will give me respite from the criminal insanity pouring out of the Oval Office. It is beyond the creative imagination of this novelist that the Balfour Declaration would one day get a makeover from a real estate developer from New York. In that reality, tuning out and focusing on football is a health benefit. Just like chasing a sliotar in Ramallah for a besieged people. It holds out the prospect of better days...

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain ยท Feb 5