Berlin Marathon - done! 🏅 Hard work in a 27C heatwave so a little slower than I’d have liked at about 4:13:43 but such an emotion running under the Brandenburg Gate and through! 🇩🇪 Last shout for sponsorship - have raised over £2k for Alzheimer's Research UK 👉 tinyurl.com/24rtnbuk

Marathon training complete! Big day on Sunday - heatwave scheduled for Berlin 🥵 and groin feeling shakey 🙃 I’m raising money for Alzheimer’s Research - if you can, any sponsorship is greatly appreciated 👉 tinyurl.com/24rtnbuk

"Sports fans go to the stadium to watch the game, have a laugh, shout nonsensical tactical advice... "They do not go to a stadium to be drowned out by music that most of them don’t even like." ✍️ @garethhanna11.bsky.social

Derry nun Clare Crockett is on the path to sainthood… that it started with confusion over an Ibiza party is objectively cool More than that, her story should inspire us and continually make our world a little bit better My column in today’s @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

"Whether or not all — or any — of the nativity story is historically accurate shouldn’t really matter too much. "There’s a truth that it’s trying to portray..." ✍️ @garethhanna11.bsky.social

"The current strategy only allows motorists to wonder if they’re being needlessly channelled into the paid-for zone" ✍️ @garethhanna11.bsky.social

"Oh, by the way, I got fired"... 🤷‍♀️ Meet the Belfast woman who helped put a famous Belfast bar back on the map... despite a big career setback 🍻 tinyurl.com/yc6awve3

The church is getting plenty of deserved flak these days - I’m never shy of pointing out its flaws either. But I was there on Sunday morning and was reminded of the good it offers. My @beltel.bsky.social column.

Northern Ireland’s family farmers need our support - it’s not just the rich and famous impacted by inheritance tax changes. Jeremy Clarkson might be better off taking a back seat on this one.

A councillor said: "The budget hasn’t been cut this year in relation to tree purchases, so genuinely I don’t know what has happened." 🎄