Birds and Birthdays
STOP PRESS Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen Schaubuhne Berlin Company Grand Opera House Belfast Finishes tonight Saturday 25th October 2014 One more night and if […]
Anne Hailes Today
Cricket, football and other things
Just back from the Grand Opera House Belfast where Shrek took the audience by storm. What a wonderful musical this is and the production is […]
WINTER DRAWERS ON
Chestnuts and Toadstools and the last of Ailsa Craig The colours of autumn are all around, a touch of sunshine, a drift of rain and […]
SUNDAY UPDATE – Downturn in Downton?
An Update on an Update! I’m still reeling from the Bruiser Theatre Company presentation of Cabaret at Belfast MAC. I don’t usually stand at […]
Sunday Update. The great and the good
The ‘On Home Ground’ festival in Magherafelt, came to a close last Sunday and was undoubtedly a great success. It was held to […]
SUNDAY UPDATE. A WEEK OF HELLOS AND GOODBYES
Another wonderful week when the sun shone and I was lucky enough to meet up with a lot of friends. Isn’t it so important […]
Indian Summer – Will It Last?
What a lovely day, lovely weekend in fact. I like it when people turn up unexpectedly and stay, somehow on Saturday it was […]
Winter Drawers On – Sunday Update
So tomorrow will be 1st September 2014. Can you believe it? Where did the spring go, where did the summer go and now it’s autumn. […]
Gatecrashing book review and a late summer update
Reading a great book at the moment, Gatecrashing the Story of 24-7 Prayer in Ibiza by Brian Heasley. Brian was born in Belfast, In Templemore […]
Sad News of Actor’s Death
I feel I’ve always known J.J Murphy, first of all when he was a continuity announcer in Ulster Television in those early days of […]