Keith O'Brien

Gone but not forgotten – fight begins to bring home Scotland's 'birth certificate'

Published Date: 17 November 2008 IT IS described as the "birth certificate of Scotland" and contains the earliest surviving record of the country's existence. The unique document is a list of the 12 kings of the House of Alpin...

Staying high and dry for the winter

The sailboat called Windward wouldn't be going aground, in a good way, for another hour yet, but Russ Ward was happy to wait. Whenever the time came, he'd be watching as his prized 48-footer left the chilly waters of Back Creek...

Stanton renews his family's grasp on integral piece of Hibs' history

Published Date: 15 November 2008 WHEN Pat Stanton is today presented by Cardinal Keith O'Brien with the first trophy ever won by Hibernian, he will be holding the same handsome piece of silverware proudly paraded round the...

A big piece of the Rock

Rocky Marciano was a Brockton giant - should his statue be, too? By Keith O'Brien Globe Staff / November 9, 2008 In life, Rocky Marciano was big in Brockton. At that height, the Marciano statue set to be erected in Brockton...

Something, anything to stop the pain - The Boston Globe

There were empty vials of morphine. (Sun Nov 09 00:04:17 2008 PST)[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $use_is_abuse(95%), $propaganda_theme4(95%),...

A disgrace to his Church and all the faithful

HOW dare Cardinal Keith O'Brien, official leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, compare the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to the atrocities carried out by the Nazis? advertising The Bill proposes using stem cells...

Christmas Tree for Boston

Too often, acts of kindness and charity are forgotten, but Halifax remembers. On the morning of December 6, 1917 two ships, one loaded with munitions, the other with relief supplies, collided in Halifax Harbour. Boston’s...

Work begins on education centre

The new centre will be built beside the Xaverian mission in Coatbridge Church leaders have taken part in a dedication service at the site of a new global education centre in Lanarkshire. Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Moderator of...

Match of the deity

Published Date: 02 November 2008 AFTER disgracing themselves at a bad-tempered football game with journalists, MSPs have decided to seek redemption by playing a squad of the nation's leading churchmen. The organiser of the...

Michael Gove: flabby Kirk needs to regain its moral might

Published Date: 02 November 2008 ONE of the terrible things about getting old is discovering how often you find yourself agreeing with Dr John Reid. Because the anti-Catholic bile which gives the famine song its dark energy...

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