Good morning on a bank holiday that will, weatherwise, be similar to yesterday - mostly cloudy but dry. It was good weather for running. I watched the very first marathon aged 10, and it was wonderful, but this one was too - for its vastness. Watch the sea of humanity passing in this 20 minute video I took. Here are dozens of photographs of the day. And this is a story about a cancer survivor who is 'ecstatic' after finishing a relay. There was other sporting joy for Fermanagh's Kieran McKenna, who has guided Ipswich to soccer's vaunted premiership. Meanwhile, Helen McGurk has interviewed Cathal McNaughton - a Pulitzer-prize winning photographer from Co Antrim alongside whom I worked 20 years ago - about his exhibition of photographs from Ukraine. In conflict-related news closer to home, victims' groups have asked why Peter Sheridan who will head a Troubles investigative body felt the need to ask loyalist and republican terrorists, and not them, what they thought about him applying for the job. Presumably it was terrorists who carried out this horrific incident in Bushmills where a man was nailed to a fence through each hand. That is some of my suggested reading. I hope you enjoy your bank holiday, Ben |