#SnugvilleStreet is FREE on Kindle right now! Download here: amazon.co.uk/Snugville-Stre…. And please share if know anyone who might be interested in a novel featuring very strong Protestant women, Belfast skies and Breton tides. #shankill #belfast

Productive meeting with Naomi Long MLA and Justice NI officials. Discussions included the Police Service NI budget, officer pay award processes, assaults, and officer welfare and wellbeing support matters. #PuttingMembersFirst

This short animation about ME is amazing. Every bit of it is relatable.

Do watch and share.

And especially - to anyone who has a bad virus you just can't shift. It's maybe too late for some of us, but it's not too late for you. Convalesce, rest, rest x

youtube.com/watch?v=yFsaBQ…

.gary lightbody asks politicians, asks all of us, to imagine our best lives without music, dance, theatre, the arts, and questions how close to perfect is it now? Says government needs to value our artists in NI over next 10 years.

#ChampioningTheArts #ACNI10YrStrategy

#BREAKINGNEWS The John Hewitt Society & Irish PEN are delighted to announce a new joint project for emerging writers – FREEDOM TO WRITE. #Applications #OPEN . Visit johnhewittsociety.org or irishpen.com for more details. Supported by the DfA: Shared Island Fund & Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

If you're in Northern Ireland, this event in May at Seamus Heaney Home is one not to be missed!

Details and booking info here: facebook.com/share/vvBQMry9…

I was delighted to attend and speak at the Coleraine Historical Society conference this morning which was held in partnership with School of History Ulster Uni History Ulster University. It was a delight to hear Professor Sean Connolly give the keynote address.

Gerardine and 2 Kings. Tonight I got to hang out with some cracker women from Alliance, wear Mayor Gerardine Mulvenna's bling and see that that politics is not the scary world I think it is. It can be female, warm, inviting & intelligent. #weemen #realgold

The brilliant Project Children Lyric Theatre Belfast. Me and my mum, having braved it through the marathon traffic. I was an intern in DC in the summer of 1999 & my job was to help coordinate the programme - the premise for my novel, ‘A Belfast Tale.’ amzn.eu/d/4O71tf3

The brilliant Project Children Lyric Theatre Belfast. Me and my mum, having braved it through the marathon traffic. I was an intern in DC in the summer of 1999 & my job was to help coordinate the programme - the premise for my novel, ‘A Belfast Tale.’ amzn.eu/d/4O71tf3

First glimpse of bluebells on Sallagh and a trip down knockdhu souterrain! #dustybluebells are still on my mind four years later!

📜 Join us on 8th May on our Coleraine Campus for a one-day conference celebrating Coleraine Historical Society's 40th anniversary & its journal, Bann Disc's 30th! Enjoy engaging talks & a keynote by Prof. Sean Connolly. Lunch provided. Book now: riversidetheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…. 🎟️📧

The entire Larne High School community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of former pupil Leah Sloan/McCrea. We send our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.

Leah, you never were, nor never will be, forgotten by you teachers here. Rest easy darling girl.

A great day at the CAP launch of Threshold Seamus Heaney Home. Congrats to the winner Michelle Dennehy and to all the long and short listed writers, especially Maura Johnston, my new Bellaghy friend (pictured below). Thanks to CAP for including my poem in Threshold.

And our congratulations to the Runner Up to the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2024, Sharon Flynn, for her poem ‘Orkney’.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Belfast City Council #NationalLottery #SHA2024

7 years of hard work, dedication & investment has delivered so much more than trophies for our community. Larne is a very different place today than it was seven years ago & everyone connected to Larne Football Club 🏆 have to take great credit. I never realised sport could inspire a whole

A wheen of words for the Larnians. (Written by Moyle Primary School p.7. children in 2022). #Larne Larne Football Club 🏆 Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

Back-to-back 🏆

Larne are (officially) champions again!

More reaction live on BBC Two NI and iPlayer 📺

#BBCFootball #BBCIrishPrem