Paul O'Hare

Senior Journalist @BBCScotlandNews. Ex-Daily Record Crime Correspondent & PA (Glasgow & Belfast). Runner. Views my own. paul.o'[email protected]

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💌 A letter that means so much.

Inspiring the next generation. ✨

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At the risk of removing the last iota of fun on this app. Meeting @ewenmurray77 to discuss 15 years of “misunderstandings” 😁

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Glasgow hailed for saving Games as baton passes to Amdavad https://t.co/ytAAKpIEpS

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WORLD RECORD HOLDER AND NOW COMMONWEALTH CHAMPION! 🔥

Josh Kerr wins in front of a home crowd at The EDF Scotstoun Stadium 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐐

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Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

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A powerful message from a powerful athlete, living with the unimaginable.

Archie Goodburn finished seventh in the Men’s 50m Breaststroke final at Glasgow 2026, two years after being told he has incurable brain cancer.

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Opening ceremony garden to find permanent home in Scotland after Games https://t.co/tYpGis026o

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King and Queen emerge from Tardis to open Glasgow Commonwealth Games https://t.co/HxMsJsi1Bm

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From Boston to Miami: How the Tartan Army lit up the World Cup https://t.co/teXZgZqgcf

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Shame and ridicule - but no motive: Five things we learned as Peter Murrell is jailed https://t.co/ezMdviylD0

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The person who compiled the music playlist at tonight’s Boston Red Sox game has clearly done their homework 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Our Scotland. You’re an easy country to love…

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Widow of falsely accused murder suspect plans to sue Scottish authorities https://t.co/6DWlNPNtnU

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