Book review — The Wonder Wheel: Harold Feinstein (Centre de la photographie de Mougins) Book review — The Wonder Wheel: Harold Feinstein (Centre de la photographie de Mougins)by Allan LEONARD28 November 2025 Harold Feinstein (1931–2015) is the most unjustly overlooked master of the post-war “New…

Review — The Race that Changed Running (Doug MAYER) Review — The Race that Changed Running (Doug MAYER)by Allan LEONARD14 November 2025 Trail runners know about UTMB — Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc — the 100-mile race around the mountain and its cols, covering three countries of France, Italy, and…

A celebration of music journalism and Belfast’s musical legacy: #booklaunch event for The Song is Nearly Over by Stuart Bailie My summary article 👉 mrulster.com/2025/11/08/a... #SoundofBelfastFest #SoundofBelfastFest25 #thesongisnearlyover @ohyeahcentre.bsky.social @stubailie.bsky.social

I completed my first trail running race. Learned some truths about terrain, distance, and performance. #running #trailrunning #NorthernIreland https://mrulster.com/2025/10/13/mourne-skytrail-20k-review/

Preparing for my first race with trail running kit Just over 40 years ago, I learned how to run competitively by joining a high school cross-country team. To get any sort of hill climbing on the otherwise flat… https://mrulster.com/2025/10/04/preparing-for-my-first-race-with-trail-running-kit/

BBC Radio Ulster – Seven Days – America Right Nation BBC Radio Ulster programme, Seven Days, reviews and discusses topic about book, The Right Nation: Why America is Different, written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge. Expert contributions by John Micklethwait and Nick Cohen (The…

OTD 14/08/1968 “The Catholics have been interfering in Ulster affairs since 1641.” —Rev. Ian Paisley, as leader of Free Presbyterian Church, 14/8/1968. The Irish Times, 15/8/1968.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin honours Mallon’s legacy with ‘Shared Home Place’ programme Read our article by Allan LEONARD 👉 sharedfuture.news/martin-honou... #SharedFuture #NorthernIreland #SharedIsland #peacebuilding #reconciliation

‘A feasible bite out of a big apple’: outcomes from ARINS/Irish Times North–South surveys 2024 mrulster.com/2025/03/14/a... #NorthernIreland #UnitedIreland

Peace process as ‘a long, slow murmuration’: the Mark Durkan interviews Read our article by Allan LEONARD 👉 sharedfuture.news/peace-proces... #SharedFuture #NorthernIreland #peacebuilding @mrulster.com

Uh-oh 🎅🏻 #CalvinandHobbes

Photographers can learn from filmmakers, who work with story boards to aid their visual storytelling. Or at least have this frame of mind when editing a selection of images for a #photobook or photo essay. #photography #photojournalism

The importance of imagery in #journalism. From book, Reporting Beyond the Problem: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

A diet of #warphotography may not be good for your health. #Peace #photography #peacephotography suggests an alternative: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Folks, let's admire what a proper bicycle lane looks like, ie you can't park a car on it. Maybe someday we'll have these in #NorthernIreland

One for @factcheckni.bsky.social @fullfact.bsky.social #accuracymatters

The potential of #peace #photography @readwise.bsky.social

A sliver of justice. I do like The Onion. Their piss take of Infowars should be entertaining.

Bluesky version of verifying accounts is a self-service option. Slight learning curve, but if you know how to access your domain's DNS records (or ask a friend), it's pretty straightforward: bsky.social/about/blog/4... Pleased with the result. Hopefully encourages trustworthiness.

Saddened by the passing of Anna Lo, a genuinely good person. @MadameUlster and I remember her support for stroke survivors. Anna was a trailblazer. Coincidentally highlighted in @SharedFuture article today:

I've walked past this fountain in the inner square of Belfast City Hall without realising it was a #memorial of #TheTroubles. Card reads: "In proud and loving memory: Seamus Sullivan; Murdered by UDA/UFF gunman; 3rd September 1991; Springfield Rd Depot; RIP; Co workers B.C.C."

A selection of images from a working trip to #Kosovo. A kind of homecoming for me from my previous assignments there. Looking forward to returning the favour with their visit to #NorthernIreland soon. #WorldPhotographyDay

On our way to #Mitrovica, a place fond in my heart, where today I will meet friends and see how this divided city is working for a better future. @cbmitrovica @AGK_AJK @UKinKosovo @SharedFuture @PeaceJourn @valdete_idrizi

This #4thofJuly is another opportunity to kick the Tories out 148 years later! #IndependenceDay #ToriesIntoThird 🇺🇸🇬🇧

#MemoriesofOthers — The Irish work of #AkihikoOkamura A posthumous #photography #exhibition @PhotoMuseumIRL #AtelierEXB My summary article on the curators’ panel discussion and #photobook publisher’s presentation 👉

Excellent @politicsinacti1 presentations and richly engaging conversation by @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students with @JustinMcNu1ty @LizK1988 @MickeyBradySF @niassembly Hopefully students left with appreciation of putting passions to action via politics.

A marathon two-hour session for @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students creating and practising their @politicsinacti1 presentations they'll give to our politicians freshly restored @niassembly. Watch out here they come!

Thanks to guests @conormurphysf and @JustinMcNu1ty MLAs who fielded questions from @stpaulsbbrook @StJosephs1964 @NewryHigh students on driving, drugs, and mental health. All good prep for their @politicsinacti1 presentation @niassembly

Much to absorb during Dublin day trip w/ visits to Irish and British memorial sites as well as education and tour of Leinster House. Everyone — students and teachers — learned something new. @NewryHigh @stpaulsbbrook @StJosephs1964 @politicsinacti1

Jennifer O'Connell @IrishTimes "How can big tech – which has the tools to identify when a song is used without copyright on an Instagram reel – not be able to alert anyone that a riot is about to unfold?" #QOTD

Louise Vance makes an impassioned speech calling on #NorthernIreland health and social care system to have a duty of care for unpaid carers: "When will they realise they are asking too much from us?" #CarersRightsDay @CarersNI @CentreForCare

So pleased that historian #SimonSchama discovered #HandinHand integrated schools in #Israel and his call for "disarming tribally lethal animosity" #NorthernIreland @IEFNI @EcoPeaceME Putting out the #MiddleEast fires, a teaspoon at a time via @ft

Another excellent session w/ @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students deciding their top issues to lobby local politicians. Thanks for the invigorating discussion! @SES_Project @politicsinacti1

‘Don’t get used as a propagandist’: visual storytelling of Ulster’s loyalist community My summary article of an artist talk by Malachi O’DOHERTY with Mariusz SMIEJEK and Ed KASHI 👉 #NorthernIreland #photography #photobook #photoexhibition @OliWhitehouse

A visual and creative delight in reading @OliverJeffers "Working Mind and Drawing Hand" @Rizzoli_Books. A sincere insight into the thought process of a remarkable artist. Looking forward to his upcoming book launch Belfast event.

A bright morning for some bright ideas at the @bonninstitute @bfuturefestival #constructivejournalism💡

Transcript of Helen Jones's interview with me recently about #carers' call for more support in #NorthernIreland 👉

Transcript of Linda Macaulay's interview with me in April about the call for a new deal for #carers in #NorthernIreland 👉

15 years on Twitter. Hard to believe. Lesson learnt from Flickr drama over the years: hang tight and hope for better days. #MyTwitterAnniversary

Long overdue to bring in statutory legal right for support for carers in NI as is the case in rest of UK. @CarersNI Craig Harrison and my remarks @BBCRadioUlster GMU (at 2:11:27) 👉 #CarersWeek2023 #CarersNewDealNI

And we're on our way drinking and digesting #NorthernIreland #LE23 election results #hangover @SluggerOToole @alaninbelfast

For my London and Dublin peeps, soon in your cities this @KaboshTheatre play about policing the #Ireland #NorthernIreland border during #TheTroubles is worth seeing and discussing:

I spoke @BBCRadioUlster with @consumerlinda On Your Behalf re unpaid carers and call for updated carers strategy (>43:00) 👉 @bbcradioulster @CarersNI @StrokeAssocNI @nichstweet @ResurgamTrust @HLCAlliance @martinh31dl @sineadmalone17 @bevbeattie #TeamBev

Two Bostonians meet in Belfast and discuss their journeys to Ireland. I told him that his father was first person I met in Boston when he was running for office. #worldscolliding @joekennedy @LilliputPress @MarcyMurninghan @MoakleyChairUMB @QUBelfast #Agreement25

I was interviewed by journalist friend @stevemcgstates for his baseball-themed project States of Play. Covered US politics, #factchecking, #NorthernIreland #WNIMTM, and exemplary community relations work @IrishFA FWIW my musings:

Padraig O'MALLEY called into @NOALIBISBOOKS to sign copies of his new book Perils and Prospects of a United #Ireland. Felt good to support this great independent bookseller. @LilliputPress @MarcyMurninghan @MoakleyChairUMB @andyjpollak @QuintinOliver

"I have no bucket list. Life is the bucket." I can't remember where or when I read this but I marked it at the time. #QOTD via @readwise

So, tagging photos on Twitter is broken. You tag the image, click "Done", and the image is not tagged in your tweet. #TwitterDoom

Behnam's playing of the santoor is beautiful: Listen in person yourself to this and other performances at Accidental Theatre this Saturday: @AccidentalT

Lively launch of @ImagineBelfast festival today! Be sure to check out the programme 👉 @CllrBlack #Belfast #brainfood #ImagineBelfast