Yesterday, Saturday 7th Jan, Ron rounded-up the troops once again, this time at the Robots Exhibition at the newly opened Clotworthy House (Oriel Gallery) in Antrim Castle Gardens. A little advertised, low-key exhibition, with little reason given for its existence beyond being the “first exhibition in the brand new light-filled Oriel Gallery” and draw people [...]

I don’t know a lot about motor racing, but I do know that it was very wet on the unfortunate day of this year’s North West 200 race. So much so that of the planned races (five I believe) only one was completed in full. As well as the rain, there was a security alert [...]

A number of people have referred to this week’s Assembly Election as the “Twitter Election”. This can be looked at in a number of ways: the number of politicians and parties on Twitter/Facebook, the number of journalists now using social media, as well as members of the public discussing politics and election through these online [...]

The TUV website was hacked yesterday evening by a Twitter user calling himself Hector O’Hackatdawn (@hectorohackatd). A brief, but clever and humorous message was left on the homepage of the website which led the party to take the site down for a short period replacing it with a brief message about an “illegal intrusion”.

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 [...]

Shortly before 4pm yesterday, 2nd April, a young police officer, Ronan Kerr, only 3 weeks out of training, was murdered as a bomb went off under his car when he opened the door. This atrocity has left much ill-feeling across Northern Ireland for the future. I found out after a quick glance at Twitter about [...]

Last week I found Belfast’s most prominent Peace Walls on Cupar Way dividing the Shankill Road and Falls Road in West Belfast. The wall was constructed in 1969 and is a 4 to 5 metre high concrete wall topped with 3 metres of cover from view metal sheeting and 6 metres of weldmesh fence. Until [...]

The snow has gone, and floods are replacing the freeze. But while it’s still fresh in your mind, here are a few more snow pics from Belfast:

Now in its sixth year, Glasgowbury has grown to become Northern Ireland’s greatest outdoor music festival. Through the sun and occasional shower, the bands played and the people slowly got drunk. The overall atmosphere, however, was one of positivity and joy and very few assholes to be found. The lineup was superb, with the best [...]

July is definitely my favourite month of the year, it would be quite odd if it wasn’t considering there is normally some sunshine (as well as being the month with the highest rainfall, but I like the rain), oh and it’s my birthday! Of course, July is filled with much mixed emotion in Northern Ireland. [...]