Category: Northern Ireland life

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Sinn Féin, a youth organisation, and the Duke of Edinburgh… time to grow up.

Michael McFarland Campbell

Imagine that you are 14 years old, you have just worked hard completing activities including Volunteering, Physical, Skills and Expedition, for over three months as well as additional three months on one of them. During this time you have also carried out a 2 day (and one night) expedition. At the end of it you get an award. It could be with your school, the Scouts, the Guides, the Boys’ Brigade, the Church Lads’ Brigade or any other youth organisation. Having completed this award. you receive a certificate from someone important, along with all the others who have got your … Continue reading Sinn Féin, a youth organisation, and the Duke of Edinburgh… time to grow up.

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Taxi drivers: useful but sometimes ignorant

Michael McFarland Campbell

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You know how it is, you are out somewhere and you need to get home. Or perhaps you are at home and you need to get somewhere else quickly. You consider the options:

  1. I walk there.
  2. I get the ‘bus there.
  3. I get a taxi there.

Well, sometimes walking is not quick enough – or the distance is too great. ‘Buses are not running where you need them to go, or they are too infrequent. So you decide that you are going to spend the extra money required to buy the professional services of a driver and order a taxi.

That’s right, I said professional services. Continue reading “Taxi drivers: useful but sometimes ignorant”

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swings and roundabouts in North Belfast

Michael McFarland Campbell

For many, the idea that a public park could have more than one set of swings and roundabouts is somewhat inconceivable, but that is just one working out of the divided society in which we here in Northern Ireland get used to. For the last 17 years there has been a so-called Peace Wall up the middle of Alexandra Park. This past week has seen a gate installed in it for the first time. And yes, for once, that gate is actually going to be opened – from 0900 to 1500 on weekdays, and currently only for a three month … Continue reading swings and roundabouts in North Belfast

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Belfast Pride Festival 2011

Politician states Pride is ‘totally repugnant’ – when will the DUP learn?

Michael McFarland Campbell

With the DUP snubbing yesterday’s Belfast Pride event at Stormont, Michael wonders how long it will be before they come on board on the issue of LGBT rights. Continue reading Politician states Pride is ‘totally repugnant’ – when will the DUP learn?

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blogged elsewhere: Appeal for all to work together…

Michael McFarland Campbell

Trouble appeared to be brewing in East Belfast as the bus I got home was making its away into East Belfast. There were just too many police landrovers lurking on street corners. Sure enough, there has been rioting in the Short Strand area of Belfast this evening. Read the rest of this post here. Continue reading blogged elsewhere: Appeal for all to work together…

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from Egypt to Northern Ireland via South Wales – a bit of a structural ramble

Michael McFarland Campbell

Inspired by reading about a South Wales company being contracted to stabilise a pyramid, Michael takes a look back at growing up with a structural engineer as a father, and particularly at the restoration of Castle Gardens, Lisburn. Continue reading from Egypt to Northern Ireland via South Wales – a bit of a structural ramble

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changing your mind is good – but don’t do it when they ask the questions

Michael McFarland Campbell

I’ve just been invited to a fundraiser in aid of Aware Defeat Depression in the John Hewitt bar, Donegall Street, Belfast on this Wednesday 25th May from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.. Aware Defeat Depression is currently coordinating our second annual Depression Aware Week. The week aims to raise public and political awareness of the condition, challenge myths and increase knowledge of the support services available to assist people to recover. As part of the week we’re holding a quiz night in the John Hewitt Bar in Belfast we have some ballot prizes which can be won. You can enter … Continue reading changing your mind is good – but don’t do it when they ask the questions

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