As is customary on the May Day Movable Monday (love the term after reading it on wikipedia) Bank Holiday, the Belfast City Marathon took place today. Starting at 9am at the City Hall and finishing in the Ormeau Park, 17,000 people took part in the 26 mile race around the city. 2,900 people ran the [...]

Me and two friends, both incidentally named Ronan, used to play pool every Friday evening, this went on for a couple of years. Over a few pints we would attempt to improve our skills, while chatting about life and such. They were good times. Our lives were quite different back then; relationships, jobs, education. This [...]

Surprise, surprise, once again on a rare hot and sunny day in Belfast the River Lagan looks and smells like complete shit. It can be smelt well before it’s seen; that awful eggy smell. So much for the Lagan Weir, completed in 1994 at a cost of £14m, which aimed to “keep the river at [...]

I got a new camera over the weekend, the Canon 40D and so I brought it out for it’s first shoot to Helen’s Bay beach:

Yesterday afternoon thousands of people congregated to the City Hall in Belfast is a silent protest against the recent violence and killings here in Northern Ireland. Organised by trade unions throughout Belfast, many also gathered in Derry, Lisburn, Newry and Downpatrick to show that they don’t want the relative-peace and security in Northern Ireland to [...]

The Ulster Hall reopened its doors on Friday night hosting a sold-out performance by the Ulster Orchestra, who have once again taken up residence in this stunning venue of historical and cultural significance after two years of renovation. Refresh The hall has had a huge makeover in both appearance and attitude, with a total cost [...]

Myspace, as a social network, is dead. Myspace is for music (and occasionally film). I think those who attended Unconvention are still collecting their thoughts and ideas that came of it, inspiring and motivating as so many of them were. The first point being how to get your music heard – simple, give it away. [...]

After hearing of all this snow in England, Scotland and Wales as well as South Ireland, I, and I assume, others had gotten pretty impatient for the snow to get to us in Belfast. Finally it did yesterday. When I awoke, before 7am, the a few inches had accumulated on the ground outside, and it [...]

I’ve seen this graffiti a few times lately as I pass through The Holy Lands in Belfast though only yesterday did I have my camera with me while remembering where it was. Don’t forget, my other solely photography blog is updated every morning with a new photograph at photo.icedcoffee.ie

It was white and indeed falling from the sky, but no, it was not snow. It was hail that fell in Belfast yesterday.