Gareth Hanna

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

There’s something happening in local sport that nobody wants… but everyone goes along with it I knew the Germans would have a word for it.

"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's journey to sainthood starting with an Ibiza party confusion is objectively cool It is objectively cool that Ireland’s next saint will be a woman who became a nun after mistakenly thinking she was “going to Ibiza to party”.

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

Where was Jesus really born? And why it shouldn’t ruin the nativity Tea towels at the ready, it’s nativity season.

"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

Belfast City Airport can make a simple change to solve its ‘drop off’ headaches… if it’s not about the money Belfast City Airport deserves a medal, if you ask me.

"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

Why I’m not giving up on NI churches despite scandals and toxic doctrines The church is getting its fair share of flak these days.

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.

Stuart.

Why NI’s farmers need our support over tax changes — despite Clarkson and sneering landlord detractors Clarkson’s Farm is absolutely brilliant. I couldn’t recommend the Amazon Prime show highly enough.

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.

NI council told to replace town’s ‘pitiful’ Christmas tree as 'there are bigger ones in shop windows’ Council officials have been urged to replace a “pitiful” Christmas tree in a Co Armagh town.

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." 🎄