My second time in Hobart was three months after my first time. And I’ll be back again next week to watch the World Cup with a Northern Irish mate. It’s a city that has grown on me, or what I mean is I didn’t like it much at the start and now I do. I Read more about Brunswick Hotel, Victoria Tavern, Glentoran v Dundee United, Bushmills and The Charlatans[…]
Northern Ireland 1-0 England 7th September 2005. David Healy 74 I was of course there in Windsor Park in the Kop the night we beat the England. I attended every Northern Ireland home match from January 1997 to September 2009. I had written a report on this match for a magazine in 2005 which was Read more about Away In A Manger – The night we bate the England[…]
IT was a basic, happy existence supporting an Irish League team. My team is Glentoran, and I have supported them all my life. The Glens are one of the “Belfast Big Two” (along with rivals Linfield) and are one of the most successful Irish football clubs of all time, and the second most successful Northern Read more about Glentoran 1-0 Portadown (Irish Cup Final. 6/05/2000)[…]
Often I feel quite proud of my country’s capital city of Belfast and the history and changes in it through the years. The part of Belfast I most associate with is East Belfast, which itself has so much history, culture and worldwide fame. Stuff you might not even be aware of, such as The Titanic, Read more about Backpacking in Northern Ireland: East East East Belfast…[…]
“The living daylights” – James Bond movie / A-Ha. This is the scariest blog post to date, and looking back at this event scared the living daylights out of me. I guess most of us will have known someone or have been in a car accident at some point in their lives. According to DingGo, Read more about The Day I Almost Died in a Car Crash[…]
In the year 2000 there was a huge buzz. A new millennium, a new century, people started being able to afford mobile phones, I used the internet, and more importantly I ceased to be a teenager! I was now 20. In that year, I worked for 48 weeks in Tesco at Springhill as a stock Read more about Phil Gray, 70: The day we beat the Malta[…]
Growing up in Northern Ireland meant going to church, the local Ballycrochan Presbyterian Church in Bangor (perhaps ironic now as I usually attend Catholic churches in Poland – Presbyterian is a branch of Protestantism – all Christian none-the-less). I was a member of 10th Bangor Boys Brigade (BB) from 1990 – 1999 (before this I Read more about Northern Ireland Days: Getting My President’s Badge (May 1996)[…]
In my life I’ve been to four Northern Ireland v. Spain matches. It seems we are two teams that are nearly always drawn against each other. For example in every World Cup between 1982 and 1994 we were either in the same group in the actual tournament or in qualifying. We even had Spain in Read more about “You’ll never get Gibraltar!” – Northern Ireland 0-0 Spain (June 2003)[…]
Back to 1990 then for this little blog post. As you may know I am a Glentoran supporter. Due to the fact that I have lived in England for 5 years, I obviously don’t go to see them a lot anymore, but there were times in the early 1990s that I used to go almost Read more about Bangor 2-1 Glentoran (Budweiser Cup, 20th October 1990)[…]
This morning I got an Ulster Fry (that’s a proper fried breakfast to anyone outside of Northern Ireland/Ulster) for just 95pence, that’s right five pence less than £1. A SEVEN piece Ulster Fry for just 95 p, plus I got two free cups of Earl Grey tea with that. This included scrambled egg, beans, tomato, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Ikea’s 95p Ulster Fry Bates The Credit Crunch!![…]