So the long list of nominees has been officially released, just behind those “leaks” that spread across the web in the last couple of days. This year I find myself nominated for: Best Designed Blog, Best Photography Blog and Best Blog. I am very pleased about this, though I doubt I will win due to [...]

Being a bit of a nerd as I am I have always enjoyed doing nerdy stuff on my PC, but the time has come where that seems pretty irrelevant. All I want is to be able to edit photographs, browse the net, watch movies and listen to music. I have problems with my pc so [...]

Surprise surprise, My computer’s gone haywire once again. Everything e’se has been called off. All money is going into the newly created ‘computer fund’ – motherboard, CPU, memory, new hard drive. Though I do want to go to Paris in the next few months. My plan of not drinking for the whole month of February [...]

Every day things happen that only motivate me to continue doing what I love even more. Always taking the good with the bad, conflicts and friendships, knowing that the good is always much better than the bad. This blog, for those unaware is for me to express myself through words, and pictures. The photographs have [...]

I haven’t seen the limelight as packed for a local band as it was on Thursday night. 360 325 paying punters. Although I did hear the turnout was similar at Kowalski/And So I watch You From Afar/Cutaways gig in December. The lineup this time around was A Plastic Rose, Panama Kings and Fighting With Wire. [...]

Tomorrow Belfast band Mary’s Great Idea will be on the new Irish language chat and music show from BBC Northern Ireland called Imeall Geal, which translates as ‘Bright Edge’. Last Sunday they performed in front of a live studio audience in Newry’s Sean Hollywood Art Centre along with Dublin band Director. The idea being that [...]

The date is January 4th 2006, nominations have just opened for the very first Irish Blog awards to be held in Dublin on March 11th at the Alexander Hotel. I was very excited, I had lots of visitors to my photoblog at the time. I was in with a chance. I didn’t expect to win, [...]

A photograph of mine has been printed in today’s copy of The Ticket, the entertainment section of The Irish Times!

The plan worked! I am now going to every single event as part of the Out to Lunch festival – Official Photographer! (unofficially photographying!) On Tuesday I saw Eilidh MacAskill – who was both very natural in her style and very funny. Only eight days after completing her daily ukulele ceilidh she is touring to [...]

And so it begins, in earnest, the year two thousand and eight. Today marks the first full week of the year, a year which, if it is anywhere near as good as the last I welcome with open arms. With my Out to Lunch programme in front of me I will make out my plans [...]