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Online campaign to bankrupt BNP

There are messages doing the rounds on Twitter suggesting an interesting way to rack up a substantial bill for the British National Party. The BNP appears to use another name for certain projects- British Heritage- to which people can send correspondence...

Published 11 Dec 2009 4:32 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Larne, British National Party, Nick Griffin, British Heritage, BNP, 42p, Larne Times, Royal Mail, Freepost

NVTV Blogtalk NI Episode 6

Blogtalk (episode 6) from Northern Visions/NvTv on Vimeo . Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited back to be a panellist of NVTV 's 'Blogtalk NI' programme. Obviously the cameras didn't break the last time I was on . On...

Published 27 Nov 2009 6:46 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Slugger O'Toole, Mick Fealty, BBC, Northern Visions, NVTV, Blogtalk NI, Andersonstown News, Ofcom, Gary McKeown, Belfast Media Group, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, Northern Notes

CIPR PRide Awards Northern Ireland 2009

Last night I was delighted to attend the CIPR PRide Awards at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. The night was made even better when we won the Award for Public Affairs for managing last year's Energy Saving Week for the Energy Saving Trust in Northern...

Published 26 Nov 2009 6:19 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: Northern Ireland, 2009, CIPR, PRide Awards, Energy Saving Trust, Energy Saving Week

The Slugger O'Toole Political Awards 2009

Last year saw the inaugural Slugger O’Toole Political Awards (or the ‘Sluggers’ as they seem to have become known in many quarters over the past few days) arrive on the political scene in Northern Ireland. Tomorrow they’ll be here again, with the event...

Published 23 Nov 2009 6:37 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: politics, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Slugger O'Toole, 2009, Awards, Mick Fealty, black box, winners, Assembly, shortlist, The Slugger O'Toole Political Awards

Up 3D and the 3D Cinema Showdown.

On Monday it was another cinema night and a trip this time to the Movie House cinema at City Side Mall (aka Yorkgate Shopping Centre) on the outskirts of the central business district of Belfast. There we enjoyed a trip for a cup of tea and then on to...

Published 14 Oct 2009 5:07 PM by A Life in Northern Ireland

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Belfast, movies, Odeon, Up 3D, movie house, 3D Cinema

Essential reading

"The Provisional IRA was born of a myth that it was needed as a defender of the Catholic community. That myth is its own creation in its own self interest."

Published 16 Aug 2009 5:41 PM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Sectarianism, Malachi O'Doherty

You're What?!?!?

I met up with my friend G. last night for dinner in the city. I haven't seen her in about 2 years so I was pretty excited to catch up. We had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory which is situated high up on the sky terrace of Macy's. The restaurant...

Published 30 Jun 2009 11:45 PM by San Fran ♥ Belfast

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, San Francisco, Food Porn, friends, Public Transportation, Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach, Muni

Northern Ireland European Election 2009 Live Blog

I've created a live blog for the European Election here in Northern Ireland. You can comment directly on it here, plus is will also pull in tweets with the hashtag #euni. Obviously I'm not responsible for comments that appear as a result of being...

Published 7 Jun 2009 5:15 AM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: Northern Ireland, 2009, Sinn Féin, Ulster Conservatives and Unionists, European Elections, European Parliament, SDLP, Green Party, Alliance Party, DUP, TUV, live blog, #euni, #eu09

Lonely Mrs. Puddinghead - Part 2

So I've this plan to get a new job and I pop off to the job centre to find that it's full of folk wanting jobs, all the oul gang are still there but they're outnumbered by all these high fallutin types wanting work. It's not cool, except...

Published 22 May 2009 1:10 PM by Party Down and Go *** Yourself

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Belfast, brandy, chocolate, Zentai The Albino, relationships, connor building, mrs puddinghead, kissogram, napolean, blacklist, job centre, great victoria street, dating

Not fare

"Translink marketing manager Ciaran Rogan says: 'To be fair, increasing bus fares by 2 per cent actually isn't a huge increase.' Perhaps not. But to be fair, bus fares in Belfast (where almost all journeys take place) are actually increasing...

Published 9 May 2009 12:32 AM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin, Translink

Councillor Co-Option Consultation

Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has launched a consultation to gauge people's views on the options available for replacing existing councillors who wish to leave office. The Minister said: "Under the Review of Public Administration, the Executive...

Published 6 Apr 2009 3:14 PM by Northern Notes by Gary McKeown

Filed under: £36000, NILGA, RPA, co-option, local government, councillor, 2011, councils, severance, Sammy Wilson, supercouncils, Review of Public Administration, Minister, Environment, £20000, Northern Ireland

Ending the silence

A report last week on National Public Radio marking the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War told the heartbreaking tale of Uxenu Ablana (left). Now 79 years old, he was one of thousands of children from Republican families snatched...

Published 6 Apr 2009 6:37 AM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, KKE, Spanish Civil War, Greek Civil War, Daily Telegraph, Greece, Daniel Hannan

Come together

By jove, he's got it! While I can't say that I'll be reaching for a Socialist Workers Party membership application form just yet but every now and again one of those Trotskyist boyos can actually display a bit of wit - and to be fair it usually...

Published 4 Apr 2009 5:28 AM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, SDLP, Presbyterianism, Sectarianism, Integrated education, Eamonn McCann, Alliance Party, Workers Party, Catholic Church, DUP, IRSP, Church of Ireland

Must try harder

"To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman, in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter, these were my means." Theobald Wolfe Tone An...

Published 2 Apr 2009 5:01 AM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, Irish Times, Republic of Ireland, Garret Fitzgerald, Gerry Adams

Just like old times

This can only mean one thing: NIR will be running a bus substitution service between Portadown and Lisburn this weekend.

Published 26 Mar 2009 11:49 PM by yourfriendinthenorth

Filed under: Northern Ireland, Public transport, Colin Duffy, NIR

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