Michael Carchrie Campbell

Celebrating our Saints: it’s one way of celebrating our European identity

May 12, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

We all know how much we in Ireland like to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, coming up soon is the Breton equivalent: Gouel Erwan, St Yves. Well this year, the Breton Association in Ireland has chosen to celebrate it in Belfast. Breizh Eire, association des Bretons d’Irlande a choisi de faire cette année la Gouel Erwan […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 1 Comment

Following this afternoon’s vote in the debate on the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, Christopher Lovell has expressed his disappointment at Tim Farron’s “abstention” today. It seems that Mr Lovell who lives in Leeds, not in Tim’s constituency, feels that because there is no vote recorded by Tim Farron in today’s […]

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£120k needed to stop Jewish religious silk hangings from leaving the UK

April 6, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

Ed Vaizey MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has placed a temporary export bar on the seven hangings which lasts until 20 May 2013 but may be extended to 20 August 2013 if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase them at the recommended price of £120,000 […]

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Disappointed with Tim Farron or Naomi Long? I’m not…

May 22, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 1 Comment

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results and more tests…

August 11, 2011 By hivblogger Leave a Comment

It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were […]

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Sickened and disgusted: Woolwich attack

May 23, 2013 By Michael Carchrie Campbell Leave a Comment

The news that a man has been murdered in full view of witnesses on the streets of Woolwich makes me feel really sick. That the man killed was a member of HM Forces seems to make it worse. It certainly looks like an attack on the State in some form. Those of us who grew […]

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No road signage but plenty of signs of the Ulster Covenant commemoration

September 29, 2012 By Michael Carchrie Campbell 3 Comments

This morning I have been walking up what later on will be the Ulster Covenant Centenary Parade route. I’m heading to the capital, Dublin, for the day for a meeting in Molesworth Street. However, one thought particularly struck me as I walked up the Upper Newtownards Road in Belfast.

The parade organisers have no signs up telling motorists and others that it is a major parade route. If this were London this would almost certainly have been done. There are signs that it is a parade route—lots of Union Flags flying at half-lamppost!