His friends called him Luke. Or Louis. Or even resorted to his real name of Martin, which he shared with both his father and the eldest of his three sons. As a wrestler he was introduced to audiences ...

British wrestlers have been celebrated in a new book called Grunts and Grapples – The Golden Age of British Wrestling, which we can’t get enough of. The coffee table must-have brings together a ...

The wrestling villain fans love to hate Giant Haystacks packs out the Lakeland Forum in Enniskillen. A record crowd of two thousand came to the Lakeland Forum in Enniskillen to see Martin Ruane the ...

As a boy, Nick Ahad idolised the wrestlers he saw on Saturday TV. Now he has revisited the sport’s northern heartland in Glory, a state-of-the-nation play that captures the thrill of the ring ‘Easy!

EVERY Saturday afternoon for 20 years, mulleted men in leotards would fight each other on live TV. They were the lords of the wrestling ring and their grappling on World Of Sport gripped the nation ...

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I RAN a picture of the Giant Haystacks, the former wrestling star of the 70s and 80s, and it sparked a few memories. Gerry Floyd from Mell had one. 'Back in the early 80s when Farrelly's Roadhouse, ...

Readers of an older pop generation will remember the lugubrious Eighties hit, Spare Us The Cutter, by Echo and the Bunnymen. Well, they are all bunnymen down at the Commons this week as the great ...

Traditional methods benefit hundreds of species but as new agricultural techniques take over, the distinctive haystacks mark a vanishing way of life Golden haystacks shaped like teardrops have been a ...

At 4.00pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons, and countless more world-wide, were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men (a.k.a. Shirley ...