The Link Family and Community Centre

I’ve been privileged to be involved with The Link Family and Community Centre in my home town of Newtownards over the past ten years.
They do fantastic, groundbreaking community development work and need as much help as possible!! Their website is www.thelinkcentre.org. I went on a training residential with some of the volunteer team to Lucan, [...]

Arsenal are pure evil

I endured an unpleasant couple of hours at White Hart lane in North London Saturday as Spurs bottled it against our rivals Arsenal yet again – going down 3-1 despite having been in front.
It’s hard to put into words how much I don’t like that lot. But I’m starting to come around to the fact [...]

The Protestant Revolution

I managed to catch the second episode of this four part series tonight – and although it was on BBC 4 I was still able to understand it OK!
It was refreshing to hear the development of family life that Protestantism served as a catalyst for – the programme interestingly traced how it’s emphasis on individual [...]

NI music – where are all the girls?

Bit of a random one this..
I was lucky to be invited to the launch of the Oh Yeah project – a recording facility in the cathedral quarter of Belfast aimed at supporting young up and coming musicians to get their foot on the ladder of the music business.
Talented local musicians and Snow Patrol were there [...]

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t believe Northern Ireland lost against Iceland tonight!
The consensus in the Longfellow was that we would go on and win after Healy’s equalising penalty. Sadly it was not to be, and I had to watch the second half of those English prima donnas strutting past Russia with a particularly long [...]

The big man breaks it off

It was announced on Friday night that Dr Paisley will step down as moderator of the Free Presbyterian church at the end of the year. Ever since he led the DUP into government with Sinn Fein trouble has been brewing in the fundamentalist heartlands.
And in those early days leading up to May 07 Paisley [...]

Joel Osteen (aka. Pastor F Gump)

Have you seen the state of this guy? Unbelievable.
I wasted 30 minutes of my life watching his church broadcast on God TV and it took my breath away.
Random quotes from the Bible, endless anecdotes of how God has moved traffic for him to get to important meetings, how friends have mysteriously got jobs they weren’t [...]