Belfast’s official St Patrick’s Day celebrations were a peaceful, family orientated event, and went off well — even if they were a little smaller and more sedate than in other cities. No green river, green buildings, green lights. In fact, the patriotism was kept largely to the small parade, cheap plastic shamrock flags (A sign [...]

Guinness is an acquired taste, you either like it or you don’t. It took me a while but now I love the taste of Guinness. I look forward to the occasional pint – it isn’t something that’s planned, but usually a last minute decision and always worth it.
Almost as tradition I would mostly drink Guinness [...]

Another brilliant [long] weekend in Dublin, possibly one of the best recently in terms of what I learnt and saw. Not that I learnt anything totally amazing, or saw anything truly unbelievable; its all about the little things.
Starting with the St Patrick’s Day Parade; this was my first time in Dublin (or the South of [...]

The Irish photo sharing website PIX.ie (think Irish version of Flickr) launched that they have joined with the St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin and are running a great competition to all photographers.

Some of the Canon have offered to sponsor some of the prizes given to the three winners who’s photographs “capture the spirit of the [...]