At least the Belfast City Council know which buildings they don’t own…

Everyone has a favourite Christmas movie, right? This December Queens Film Theatre and Jameson Whiskey are going to show one of three classic Christmas movies: Die Hard (1988) Elf (2003) or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) The choice is pretty easy, right? Die Hard for sure! Certainly my choice in this case. Elf is just [...]

Celebrity culture: it’s everywhere and it’s very difficult to escape. I realise I sound like my Grandparents, though worse perhaps than my own Grandparents as they don’t understand just how bad celebrity culture is today. And how much it bothers me. I have many issues surrounding idolising those in the spotlight, those with their 15mins [...]

Yesterday at Stormont, Belfast Pride held their ‘Pride on the Hill’ event, in which a panel of politicians spoke about their views and current legislation in Northern Ireland regarding the LGBT community and equality issues.

Last night was the launch of Belfast Pride 2011 in the Europa Hotel in the city centre. Niall Gillespie, Pride Committee Chair and Treasurer, started things off with a brief history of Pride in Belfast, this was followed by the premier of Shay O’Donnell’s winning short film, ‘Closet Full of Lies’, which gives a glimpse [...]

In its 8th year, the Festival of Fools is running for the 5 days from Thurs 28th April until Monday 2nd May. Drawing huge crowds the annual street festival is a lot of fun and great a great atmosphere in Belfast city centre. I hope to catch a bit more of it over the next [...]

Today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was watched by an estimated estimated 400 million people worldwide, and has become the biggest largest event in Internet history. Of course there were also many street parties. I caught up with one on Donegal Road in South Belfast:

Elsie at Ely Marketing successfully helped add to an already brilliant atmosphere on the sunny Lisburn Road on Saturday 23rd April. The weather was fantastic and it was great to see so many families enjoying themselves, and I wonder how much of a success the Lisburn Road Business Association will consider it to have been. [...]

A plan to promote the Lisburn Road, launched at the recent “emergency meeting” by the Lisburn Road Business Association and Ely Marketing kicks off tomorrow. I Love Saturdays is a street event taking place on the Lisburn Road on 23rd and 30th April from 1-4pm and includes: This is the agenda for Saturday 23rd April. [...]

Any ordinary citizen who feels that attending a mass rally is not the best thing to do in order to show your anger at recent acts of violence needs to be set straight. Several thousand people gathered today at Belfast City Hall to show solidarity and to pay their respects to 25-year-old Pc Ronan Kerr [...]