The Scenic Route - a trip through the Belfast National Trust Properties
A little video of various bits of the properties looked after by the National Trust in Belfast...
* Rose Garden (Terrence Hill Gardens)
* Minnowburn (Shaw's Bridge)
* Divis and the Black Mountain
* Gleno (outside Larne)
* Portmuck (Islandmagee)
* Skernagh Point (Brown's Bay, Islandmagee)
Music by volunteer ranger Will Hawkins
Video by Will and Clare Hawkins
Editing by Clare Hawkins
Belfast South General Election 2019 results in full
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For any copyright, please send me a message. Voters in Belfast South have gone to the ballot box to elect their MP in the General Election 2019. A new Member of Parliament is being elected for the constituency, which includes the areas of Ballynafeigh, Blackstaff, Botanic, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Shaftesbury, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, Windsor, Woodstock, Beechill, Cairnshill, Galwally, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, Newtownbreda, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Hillfoot and Wynchurch. The sitting MP before the election was the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly. Polls closed at 10pm on Thursday December 12 with the count expected to take place overnight. Results should be announced shortly afterwards. For all the latest General Election reaction in and around Belfast and Northern Ireland visit Belfast Live . You can see all the results for the constituency as they are announced in Belfast South, Northern Ireland and the UK, in the interactive widget and map below. Simply type in your postcode, or the constituency name, and find out who won the seat and how many votes each candidate received.
The Mary Peters Athletics Track Belfast
The Mary Peters Track is set in the heart of Lagan Valley Park and is surrounded by 30 acres of conifer woodland planted out as a shelterbelt. A network of forest and mountain bike trails surround the track leading to Shaws Bridge and the Lagan Towpath
The History of The Mary Peters Track
On Easter Monday, 19 April 1976, the sun shone brightly upon a scene unique not only to Belfast, but to the whole world of sport. It represented the fulfilment of one person’s dream and the achievement of a remarkable exercise in effort and co-operation, by an amazing variety of individuals and organisations from Northern Ireland and further afield. The occasion was the opening of the new Mary Peters Track, and the place, the site of the old Queen’s University athletic track lying in the centre of a natural amphitheatre at the south end of the University’s Malone Playing Fields. In place of the old track, however, there lay a bright red-coloured Tartan track, the material on which the Montreal Olympics were to be held later that year.
After her gold medal triumph in the pentathlon event at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Mary Peters suggested, that to commemorate her victory she would like to see a high-standard synthetic athletic track constructed for the benefit of the people, particularly the young, of Belfast and Northern Ireland.
Shortly after Mary’s return to Belfast, a Fund Raising Committee was formed and a Track Appeal launched. A Steering Committee, representative of the University, the Sports Council, the NIAAA, the NIWAAA, Belfast Telegraph Newspapers, and Mary Peters herself, was established to consider the profile of the track to be laid, and arrangements for its construction and subsequent administration.
It had been proposed that the new track should provide primarily first-rate training facilities as well as being capable of staging international athletics meetings. Indeed, the Committee was more interested in encouraging participation than in simply developing a prestigious complex to be used only on a very limited number of occasions each year. Thus the athletes of Northern Ireland gained a first-rate athletic track in an easily accessible area on the outskirts of Belfast, and the University gained a facility on its property.
The track gave the athletes of the country, the Belfast public and the staff and students of the University, a place to train, coach, and jog, and, since March 1976. In its first season, the track attracted some of the leading British and International athletes to Belfast. At the Opening Meeting, a large crowd of excited children was enthralled by Brian Hooper pole-vaulting his way to a new British record and, later in June of that year, despite a very damp evening, a crowd of 5,000 gathered to watch leading stars such as Steve Riddick (who went on to win a gold medal at the Montreal Olympics), and Andrea Lynch in a meeting organised during the Belfast Festival Week. In July 1977, the track hosted the British Universities’ Athletics Championships, the first time this important event was held in Northern Ireland.
In the nineteen eighties and nineties, many major meetings were held on the track, under the capable direction of inter alia the late Les Jones of the NIAAA. Among those taking part were Ed Moses, John Walker, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Zola Budd, Fatima Whitbread, Tessa Sanderson and our own Mike Bull. In more recent years International championship meetings held at the track include the World Transplant Games.
As time passed, and the track surface required major works, it became clear that a voluntary organisation could not hope to generate the cash for the necessary refurbishment. Thus in 1985, after an approach from the Committee, with the support of the University, Belfast City Council very willingly agreed to take responsibility for the Track, while safeguarding the essential ethos of the operations.
The icing on the cake has now been provided by the completion of a £3 million+ project to redevelop the complex through the provision of a new Mondo track of eight lanes and spectator accommodation in a new stand.
The Belfast City Council Mary Peters Track is now managed by Athletics Northern Ireland the governing body for the sport of athletics in Northern Ireland.
Clubs
Clubs currently based at the Mary Peters Track are listed below. For information regarding all Athletics NI registered clubs visit athleticsni.org
All Star Special Olympics Club
Beechmount Harriers
City of Lisburn AC
Lagan Valley AC
Orangegrove AC
Dub Runners
Belfast Running Club
Olympian Triathlon Club
St Anne's AC
Autumn Northern Ireland
Autumn - Northern Ireland
Another one of my seasonal videos, this time Autumn. I had a wonderful time exploring the many forests and parks around the Counties of Down and Antrim in Northern Ireland over the past 2 years. I didnt want it to end.... Discovering and learning about the different types of fungi was challenging but fascinating. The one fungi that eluded me was the fairy tail mushroom - Fly Agaric. There is always next autumn...I'll be on its trail...
The places visited where - Tollymore Forest Park, Crawfordsburn Country Park, The Glens of Antrim waterfalls - Ess-na-Crub and Ess-na-Larach. Antrim Castle Gardens, Minnowburn and Lagan Towpath, Crumlin Glen, Ormeau Park Belfast, Gleno waterfall, Stormont grounds, Hillsborough Parish Church and Belvoir Forest.
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Spring Lambs Lagan Towpath Ballyskeagh Lisburn
Today the 5th april, the sun shone most of the day. We were out on the river Lagan towpath. We walked through from SirThomas and Lady Dixon Park to the other side of the M1 motorway at Ballyskeagh. I couldn't resist taking this video of nearby sheep and new born lambs in a field adjoining the walkway. The world and his wife were out walking running and cycling past us. They too were taking advantage of the near 'tropical' weather conditions! lol
The temperature was 9. 5 C, -roasting!
Connecting for Growth Meet the Buyer with Bank of Ireland UK, 8 November, Crowne Plaza, Belfast
Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry is partnered with the Bank of Ireland UK on delivery of Connecting for Growth, a cross-border trade initiative, designed to facilitate increased business between companies from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
This event was the second Meet the Buyer event of the 2017 series and followed the very successful flagship networking event which took place at Titanic Belfast in March 2017 and first Meet the Buyer event which took place at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry in May 2017.
The Connecting for Growth Meet the Buyer events involve pre-arranged appointment slots between Buyers and Suppliers.
Cornishwalls
Go pro footage from Antic playing in Cornwall with the slacklinewarehouse fam
Music
Feeling better-Pretty lights
Friday-Gramatik
BORN2RUN DAMBUSTERS 2015
ANOTHER GREAT RACE IN A GREAT PLACE..
Shotgun - George Ezra cover atThe Riverbar Crowne Plaza, Belfast
Wedding disco Crowne Plaza Hotel Belfast Aug 2019
Paul McKenna Wedding DJ
Behind the Scenes - Making carved wooden signs for National Trust
A behind the scenes look at how we created some very special signs for National Trust in Northern Ireland using teak timber which had been salvaged from the old Lagan Weir Bridge in Belfast. The signs are now used for waymarking at Minnowburn on the banks of the River Lagan. Visit legraphics.co.uk or give us a call on 028 6632 5423 to find out how our signage solutions can help your business.