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 [...]

The funeral of Constable Ronan Kerr will be held on Wednesday at 12. The ceremony will take place in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with burial in Drumduff cemetery. It is expected that many politicians will be present, including First Minister Peter Robinson and Taoiseach Enda Kenny. A large rally in anti-violence rally has [...]

The Lisburn Road Business Association this evening had an “emergency meeting” in Lily’s Pub & Eatery as a way of gaining further support and funding for the organisation. The LRBA is a local trading group, founded in 2003, whose main objectives are: To maintain the Lisburn Road as a vibrant, essential, unique and popular destination. [...]

The final stop of the #IBA11Photowalk was the roof of the Europa hotel, the venue of the night’s event. I’d been to the top of the Europa hotel in the past, though not in daylight so it was great to see the whole of the city from such a perspective.

Following on from the brilliant tour of the Titanic Building we met with a self-proclaimed “Titanorak”, who showed us around the old Harland and Wolff offices which housed the original plans for the great ship that sank. The Drawing Rooms of the Titanic have been abandoned since the 1970′s other than the occasional private event.

It was Saturday 19th March and shortly after 1pm a bus came to collect the photo-blogging troupe from the City Hall, bringing us to the Titanic Signature building — currently very much under construction. First stop, the offices Harcourt Construction for hi-vis jackets and hard-hats. Thanks to those at Harcourt for allowing us on site, [...]

Traditionally, we photo-bloggers would organise a photo-walk on the afternoon of the Irish Blog Awards, though this year, DavyMac did an amazing job of putting together a brilliant itinerary of a number of Belfast’s renowned sites. Many thanks go out to Caroline Dixon of the Belfast City Council, Fiona Ure of the Belfast Visitor & [...]