Stormont

Today we woke up excited to go to Belfast and the Irish Government building known as Stormont. We were a little late getting on the road and were all a little scared about seeing the two most important people in power in Ireland and potentially having to ...

... always seems to be, "I didn’t know they actually work up there?"  For me, it has been fascinating comparing Stormont and Northern Irish politics to US politics.  One of the highlights of last week was getting to attend the Prime Minister ...

... "avenue." We pass the stature of Lord Carson. Stormont is now home to the new Northern Ireland Assembly. To the side is Stormont Castle, Belfast Headquarters of the Secretary of State for N.I. aka the Prime Minister.  This guy has one heck of a nice ...

... still play such a huge role in their lives. The Orange Organization is 100% Protestant. After the hall, we went to Stormont (The Parliament Building) to attend a banquet for the organization called Friends Forever. It is an amazing organization ...

... . We stopped by the Belfast Castle, saw Samson and Goliath (the 2 massive cranes used to make the Titanic), and headed over to Stormont.  There we met Senator Basil McCrea, my new friend. We had some good craic with him, and then we watched him speak ...

... city tour bus which took us first through the central city to the troubles area then to the Titanic quarter through to the Stormont area which is a complete contrast.    The live commentary was excellent, plenty of facts and figures but the ...

... have been crowned for centuries and where the Murray family (the Earl and Countess of Mansfield whose oldest son is the Viscount Stormont and the younger son the Master of Stormont – you know) still lives. The legendary Stone of Scone was where the ...

... . It really is one of the great things about hostels and traveling.  After a stale 75p muffin for breakfast, i headed down to Stormont for the cricket. It was a cute little ground with around 6,500 temporary seats and no cover from the weather. This ...

... could actually probably have guessed judging by the number of cranes poking out across the skyline... Ten mins further east was the Stormont Parliament Building. Pulling up to the gates to get in was an unnervingly amusing event, as a security guy got on ...

... the easter weekend services, so Townsville should do the job! I'm missing the Easter build-up that I usually experience at Stormont church to Easter Sunday when the moving dawn service up the Castlereagh hills reminds me again of Jesus' immense sacrifice ...

... , and Mike went to Orangefield school at the same time as my dad! I also know Dave's brother Ian Clark and his son Christian from stormont church! Mad. So we all had a BBQ dinner and I headed off on the bike to Motueka, close to the Abel Tasman park. It ...

... . The tour took in the Titanic quarter (which will be a tour on its own from next year because of the centeniary), Stormont (which was a beautiful, grand building) and an infatuated lady tour guide managed to share her love of Van Morrison at nearly every ...