FESTIVALS

Health And Wellbeing Festival Set For Belfast THIS Sunday (Nov 8)

November 3, 2015

A FESTIVAL celebrating health and wellbeing will open its doors in Belfast this weekend. The first TONIC Health & Wellness Festival event at T13 in the Titanic Quarter will take place this [...]

13 Powerful Ways To Inject A Little Happiness & Positivity Into Your Life

October 25, 2015

WITH all the stresses of every-day life, looking after your own health and wellbeing can more often than not take a back seat. But a festival celebrating health and wellbeing taking place in Belfast [...]

Whet Your Appetite At Lisburn & Castlereagh Restaurant Week

October 23, 2015

FOOD lovers are in for a treat this month as the inaugural Lisburn & Castlereagh Restaurant Week kicks off with eight days of events and special offers across some of the district’s finest [...]

Diagnosed With A Pituitary Tumour, Tessa Completely Re-Evaluated Her Life

October 18, 2015

WHEN former DJ Tessa Greer decided to give up life behind the decks it wasn’t because she’d fallen out of love with the music. For years the 43-year-old was working unsociable hours in high [...]

Health And Wellbeing Festival Set For Belfast’s Titanic Quarter

October 7, 2015

A FESTIVAL celebrating health and wellbeing will take place in Belfast next month. Organised by sound therapist Tessa Greer, the first TONIC Health & Wellness Festival at T13 in the Titanic [...]

2nd Full Moon Film Festival Launches In Newcastle

October 7, 2015

THE Newcastle Community Cinema (NCC) has launched their second Full Moon Film Festival. The festival will take place from October 22-25 in the volunteer led cinema’s new premises. Following [...]

The Quartel Set To Rock The Pavilion On Culture night

September 17, 2015

AFTER an absolutely amazing performance at their EP launch at Blackstaff, The Quartel, a young indie-mod band from Belfast, are set to play another gig, this time headlining at the Pavilion for [...]

ICONS Digital Tech Festival Announce BT As Sponsors

September 15, 2015

THE forthcoming ICONS Festival has announced BT as it’s sponsor for the digital tech festival at the end of the month. Held in the Titanic Exhibition Centre from September 24-27, the event will [...]

Superstar Startups Set For Tech Scene Competition At ICONS Festival

September 9, 2015

FROM Italy to Ireland, and from the US to the Ukraine, up to 100 of the most innovative and forward-thinking startup companies that the tech scene has to offer will be on display as part of the ICONS [...]

9 Reasons To Go To The Forthcoming Tesco Taste Festival

September 8, 2015

MORE than 60 local food makers and suppliers are set to descend on Belfast’s Custom House Square for the 2015 Tesco Taste Festival later this month. Running from September 18-20, the festival [...]

Electronic Music Supremos Set For Black Box Belfast Festival Date

September 4, 2015

TWO artists from the electronic music industry will perform together for an unforgettable evening of dramatic new boundary pushing music next month. Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Joel Cadbury ( sOuth / [...]

12 Fab Acts Appearing At The Omagh Bluegrass Festival This Weekend

September 2, 2015

IF you’re still deciding whether you’re going to head to the Omagh Bluegrass Festival this weekend we’re fairly sure this will swing your vote. The unique festival, which runs from [...]

PICTURE SPECIAL: Thousands Flock To Belfast Mela Celebration Of World Culture

September 1, 2015

THOUSANDS of visitors flocked to Belfast’s Botanic Gardens to experience the colourful multi-culturalism of the city’s annual Mela Festival in the largest annual event of its kind in Ireland [...]

Vital Gossip: Showbiz News All About Your Tennent’s Vital Stars

August 30, 2015

ARE you spending the weekend living it up at the Boucher Playing Fields with some of the top stars in the music business at Tennent’s Vital? Here’s a few tit-bits of gossip to get you [...]

Excitement Builds On Site At Tennent’s Vital As Organisers Prepare For 65,000 Music Lovers This Weekend

August 28, 2015

ORGANISERS of Tennent’s Vital will welcome a whopping 65,000 people through the gates at the festival this weekend at the Boucher Playing Fields in Belfast. And we have a sneaky peak behind the [...]

Belfast Mela Gets Ready For Runway Success

August 25, 2015

A BOLLYWOOD flash mob hit the Belfast International Airport recently giving customers a taste of what to expect at the forthcoming Mela festival. Taking place at Botanic Gardens on August 30 this is [...]

Luminara Festival Set To Light Up The Skies In Lough Neagh

August 25, 2015

THIS August bank holiday will see Lough Neagh light up in a weekend of festival fun in Ballyronan and Toome. Friday August 28 kicks off the bank holiday weekend of festival fun with Lumarina at [...]

Pop Star, YouTube Sensation & Top Broadcaster Headed To Belfast For ICONS Festival

August 21, 2015

THREE pop culture stars have joined the line-up for a forthcoming creative industries festival set to welcome over 20,000 people over four days next month. Music industry figures Nicola Roberts of [...]

10 Great Festivals You Should Check Out

August 9, 2015

NORTHERN Ireland has a rich festival programme this year – from country fairs and food festivals to music weekends and world culture celebrations there’s literally something for everyone. [...]

Do You Have What It Takes To Beat Northern Ireland’s World Oyster Champ?

August 2, 2015

NORTHERN Ireland’s World Oyster Eating Champion has revealed he wants to find someone who he can train to beat him. And although 59-year-old Colin Shirlow says he’s confident he can find a winner [...]

10 Secrets Of Short Story Writing To Help You Craft The Perfect Tale

January 9, 2016 // 4 Comments

IN recent years the revival of the short story has had many writers eagerly turning to their keyboards. But writing a short story is harder than it seems and can be a [...]
4 Vital Signs That Someone You Love May Be Suicidal

January 26, 2016 // 2 Comments

THE latest public report showed that 6708 people in the UK and Ireland died from suicide in 2013. These alarming statistics have observed an increase in figures over the [...]
The Single Person’s Guide To Surviving Valentine’s Day

February 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

A 2014 study determined that more than a third of people in the UK were single or had never married. That’s quite a large chunk of the population. Yet at this time of the [...]