UTMB Arc of Attrition 2026 review Waiting to board the Ryanair flight from Dublin to Newquay, the sight of fellow passengers wearing running trainers and inspecting their phones with the LiveTrail running app, confirmed that I was among a pack travelling to participate in the UTMB Arc of Attrition…

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