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, [...]

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 [...]

The day I had been looking forward to for 2 years arrived on Friday; my photographs framed and exhibited in a public place. Friday was the launch; the first day of the exhibition, and the ‘Out to Lunch’ festival which is running until 27th January. I was down early to clean a few of the [...]

So. It’s here. Christmas. You may be reading this on Christmas day. What are you doing on the Internet on Christmas day? Family sucks? Guess its the problem a lot of people have. Understandable. Boxing day? Again, why aren’t you opening all those boxes? Not believe in Christmas? Again, Family suck? It’s okay, I understand. [...]

After sacrificing sleep last night for Grey’s and the Interweb, I went with some friends to St Georges ‘Christmas’ Market. It had been years since I had been to the market, and although it was near closing by the time we got there, it looked like it would have actually been good during peak hours. [...]

Yesterday was the official launch of the ‘Out To Lunch‘ festival – a mini festival as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – which runs in January 2008. What better time then to announce that I will be exhibiting a small selection of my work with local bands and musicians throughout the festival which [...]

This morning I woke up with the most painful throat ever. That and a killer headache. I need throat lozenges desperately. I’ve done all that I can, which isn’t a lot. I had some soup. I turned the heating on. I dressed warmly. I just wanted to go back to bed. And so I did. [...]

Is today just another mindless excuse to drink? Another day where drinking from mid-afternoon is acceptable (just like that other day). In pre-Christian Ireland there was the Druidic “fire festival” called “Samhain“. In the year 835 Pope Gregory IV changed the date of All Saints’ Day from May 13 to November 1 so as it [...]

I’ve found that the only way to possibly get an early night on a Sunday is by not going to sleep on Saturday night. A little Tony Hawk’s Underground, some crap late night tv, then the whole of Weeds season one (great show!), some photo editing, an episode of Robot Chicken, and finally an episode [...]