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POTD – No Alibis

Moochin Photoman on September 29, 2011, 8:55 am

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It’s fresher week Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of …

POTD’s – Picture Quiz and the answers are

Moochin Photoman on September 26, 2011, 11:13 am

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Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of grants from the …

Culture Night … tonight in Belfast, Strabane, Derry and beyond

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 23, 2011, 12:00 pm

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Across Ireland, tonight’s the night when arts taster events will be run in a town near you … for free. Last September, Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter was buzzing late into the evening as families walked around the streets, guided by maps and diverted by what their ears and eyes could pick out of the smorgasbord of music, pictures, talks, dance, comedy, street performers and one man soulfully playing trumpet from an upstairs window. Tonight, the organiser has crammed in even more …

Alex Maskey: “this particular development is a little bit interesting but it’s certainly not one that I would support.”

Pete Baker on September 21, 2011, 6:54 pm

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The short BBC report on the police being attacked with fireworks in the Markets area of Belfast last night, as they investigated the shooting of a 20-year-old man in the legs, has few details to go on. UTV, on the other hand, have a straight-foward statement, condemning both incidents, from local Alliance Councillor Catherine Curran, and something odd from Sinn Féin MLA, Alex Maskey. Mr Maskey explained the initial incident. “Two people went to a house and asked for an individual by Christian …

POTD – Schomberg House

Moochin Photoman on September 16, 2011, 8:10 am

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Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of grants from the …

POTD – Corrected misspelling

Moochin Photoman on September 15, 2011, 7:00 am

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As A follow on from yesterday’s POTD on Chichester St, this from the New Lodge. (ED Syntax corrected) Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first …

POTD – Bastardised scrawl

Moochin Photoman on September 14, 2011, 8:02 am

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Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of grants from the …

POTD – Mount Vernon Welcomes You

Moochin Photoman on September 13, 2011, 8:07 am

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Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of grants from the …

POTD – Musical differences?

Moochin Photoman on September 12, 2011, 8:03 am

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More like drunken racism. I’ll leave it to your imaginations as to the shite the fella with the tin whistle was coming out with. Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North …

Final look back at Sinn Féin’s ard fheis

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 11, 2011, 9:15 am

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I’ve only been to the Sinn Féin ard fheis twice. Eighteen or so months ago the coffee area outside the main hall in Dublin’s RDS resounded with the voices from across the south of the island. But northern accents were scarce, and as a visitor it heightened the feeling of being an outsider and in a minority. This weekend, the situation was reversed. While the theme was ‘a new republic’ and ’32 county thinking’, the accents floating across the concourse …

POTD – There was talk of a dirty protest!

Moochin Photoman on September 11, 2011, 7:28 am

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Sinn Fein ard fheis Waterfront Hall Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of …

Day 2 in the New Republic house #ardfheis – updated with Adams’ closing speech

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 10, 2011, 12:26 pm

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It’s a damp and overcast day in Belfast. The PSNI are cycling around the outside perimeter of the Waterfront Hall, while the Sinn Féin stewarding team patrol the other side of the fence. A lot of Friday’s delegates are bleary eyed. Stall holders are unpacking their merchandise. The media are crowded around the four audio connections that were wired up overnight in their upstairs annex. Downstairs in the hall, delegates have discussed transport, environment and infrastructure. They’re now into the …

POTD – Putting the slap on

Moochin Photoman on September 10, 2011, 7:35 am

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I reckon she had a date Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of …

POTD – Happy clappers

Moochin Photoman on September 8, 2011, 8:29 am

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(with an amplifier) outside City Hall Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of …

Sinn Féin’s Ard Fheis this weekend in Belfast #ardfheis … kicking off party conference season

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 6, 2011, 8:45 am

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Sinn Fein Gerry Adams shadow at 2011 manifesto launch

Update – Sinn Féin launched the clár (agenda/timetable) for the Belfast Ard Fheis this morning. Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill and Belfast Lord Mayor Niall Ó Donnghaile spoke briefly afterwards about the conference coming north, the value of bringing in external guests to speak (including Rev David Latimer – see below), an overview of some of the themes that will be covered in the motions. I also asked whether the issue of Sinn Féin supporting an Irish Presidential candidate would be …

POTD – Little and Large

Moochin Photoman on September 5, 2011, 8:39 am

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at the Waterfront Hall yesterday as part of the ‘On your Bike’ event. A day of free films and cycling related frolics for all the family. It was the first time the event has been held and despite the weather being less than kind there was a steady stream of people down. The musical highlight was for me Stephen Randall Hall who never fails to entertain Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops …

POTD – Molte Street

Moochin Photoman on September 4, 2011, 11:17 am

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in the Village area. Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number …

Lembit Opik hasn’t gone away you know (PS: Brian Paddick’s the Lib Dem candidate for London mayor)

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on September 2, 2011, 9:36 pm

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While earlier this week ‘punk godfather’ Terri Hooley won the race to be elected as Lord Mayor of the Cathedral Quarter as part of Culture Night Belfast‘s celebrations, the competitors are only warming up on the starting line of the 2012 London Mayoral elections. This evening, London Lib Dem members voted to give former Metropolitan Police officer and 2008-candidate Brian Paddick a second chance, rather than hand the opportunity to ‘celebrity’ Lembit Opik. In an interview with London’s Evening Standard, …

POTD – Maureen has now moved

Moochin Photoman on September 2, 2011, 9:11 am

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to East Belfast Mission 240 Newtownards Rd. So says the sign on what was the PUP constituency office on the Newtownards Rd Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and …

“We now realise that wasn’t a brilliant idea…”

Pete Baker on August 30, 2011, 4:57 pm

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Newshound transcribes a Sunday World report on the recent removal of a ‘women in struggle’ wall mural at Rockmount Street, Belfast, and its controversial replacement – an advert for Northern Property, a Falls Road-based estate agency. From the report Tony Donnelly, director of Northern Property, said his office had been inundated with calls about the mural’s removal. He said it had been taken down by Sinn Féin and his company had then erected its ad separately. “We now realise that wasn’t a brilliant idea …