Really looking forward to this -TOMORROW !!! Chatting about my new biography of David Trimble with the wonderful Donna Traynor. Good conversation, political insight and a bit of craic. Europa Hotel in Belfast. Friday 10 October at 7.30pm. Tickets from Stephenwalker.uk or via noalibis.com

Need a “ Blue Lights” fix ? Chatting to screenwriter Declan Lawn about my new Trimble book and a certain TV show ! Catch us at the Braid Theatre in Ballymena on Tuesday 14 October at 7.30pm. Tickets via Stephenwalker.uk or shapedbyseaandstone.com

Really looking forward to this on Friday 10 October. Chatting with Donna Traynor at the Europa Hotel about my new biography of David Trimble. Tickets via noalibis.com Or via Stephenwalker.uk

Great display @waterstones Foyleside. Thanks to all the staff there. Next Trimble book event is Friday 10 October with Donna Traynor at the Europa Hotel at 7.30pm. Tickets via noalibis.com or via Stephenwalker.uk

Looking forward to chatting with Donna Traynor on Friday 10 October at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. We will talk about my new biography of David Trimble. Tickets via Stephenwalker.uk or at noalibis.com

What a night ! It was a great start to the Trimble book tour in Bangor Abbey last night. At the Aspects Literature Festival Lady Hermon and I had an audience of 200. Great venue, lovely crowd. Donna Traynor and I will be at the Europa Hotel on Fri 10 Oct. Tickets stephenwalker.uk Or noalibis.com

Enniskillen launch of David Trimble biography. Tuesday 21 October with David Kerr. Tickets 👇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cou...

One week today. Chatting to Lady Hermon at Bangor Abbey. Tickets via Stephenwalker.uk Or aspectsfestival.com

Enniskillen launch of David Trimble biography. Tuesday 21 October with David Kerr. Tickets 👇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cou...

You probably didn't know that David Trimble - then a hardliner close to Bill Craig & involved in bringing down Stormont's first power-sharing experiment - travelled to jail to teach republican students interned in 1971. Lots more nuance like that in @stepwalktv.bsky.social's new biography.

David Trimble—Nobel Laureate & key architect of the Good Friday Agreement—gets his first full biography. Peacemaker by @stepwalktv.bsky.social charts his journey from Belfast academic to NI’s first First Minister, with insights from the Trimble family. bridgebooksdromore.co.uk/product/davi...

Great to chat to Paul Clark about my new book ‘ David Trimble : Peacemaker’ You can watch it on ITV X

As a tribute, can I watch All the President’s Men for the 10,000th time? Yes, I probably can

Latest hearing in the PSNI covert surveillance of journalists scandal will take place today, 10:30am at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, London. This time it involves well-known journalists Vincent Kearney, Chris Moore and BBC vs PSNI, the Met, MI5 and others. #PressFreedom

Enjoyed chatting to Claire Byrne on RTE today about my biography of David Trimble.

Delighted to help launch this year’s Aspects Festival in Bangor. Chatting to Lady Hermon on 3 October at Bangor Abbey about my biography of Lord Trimble. Tickets aspectsfestival.com/whats-on

Great coverage in County Down Spectator and Newtownards Chronicle. A big thanks to Julie Waters. My new book ‘ David Trimble : Peacemaker ‘ will be published in September by Gill Books.

Do you remember the Little Theatre in #bangorni ? It sat on Central Avenue for around 50 years until its demolition in the 1990s. What shows did you see there? #musicaltheatre #amdramtheatre

Delighted to reveal the cover of my biography of Lord Trimble. ‘David Trimble : Peacemaker‘ is being published in September by Gill Books.

Sunset in Bangor.

A Bangor morning. One more spin.

Manchester United and Tottenham to meet in Europa League final

Easter Monday.

Great edition of County Down Spectator. Rory’s local paper. #buyanewspaper

Donegal rainbow.

Good Morning.

A day late. ☘️ Some creative gardening. Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan.

Great craic being on the radio today with Rachael Jeffers and @markdevenport.bsky.social Reviewing the papers and chatting about St Patrick’s Day in Canada, Charles I, Chess, Trump, and a host of other things !

The News Letter, first published in September 1737, will this year mark its 288th anniversary as the oldest continuously published English language daily paper.

Pope Francis remains in stable condition, a day after respiratory crisis

Delighted to attend the naming of the John and Pat Hume building @ulsteruniversity.bsky.social at Magee. @colindavidsonart.bsky.social

Try, try and try again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘I hear her voice right now in my head. It was mellow, rich, smooth and honeyed. If she had done advertising voiceovers, you'd have bought anything that voice urged.’ My memories of coffee dates with the iconic #writer #JenniferJohnston #irishwriters www.e-pages.dk/irishindepen...

We are so sorry to hear of the passing of Jennifer Johnston, one of the most acclaimed Irish writers of her generation. We were honoured to host her at the Irish Writers Centre for several literary events. Sending our thoughts to her family and friends.

George Clooney: ‘I told Amal, I can still do everything I did when I was 30. But in 30 years, I’m 90. That’s a real number’

King Frankie introduces Broughshane teenager Claudia Beatty as a young actor with Down’s Syndrome who enjoys a special bond with Frankie as he drives her about. Q&A with cast after screening!

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall. Seamus Heaney, ‘Scaffolding’

We have half-price family tickets this midterm (valid until 23 Feb), meaning two adults and up to four children can visit the museum for just €16! Code: FEB50. Book your tickets now moli.ie MoLI is open all week, from 10.30am to 5.30pm.

🔺 BREAKING: A British couple who were detained in Iran while on a round-the-world motorcycle trip have been charged with espionage, according to the Iranian judiciary news agency ⬇️

Hurrah! Some lovely news this grey Tuesday!

Pope Francis to stay in hospital because of ‘complex clinical picture’

A 12-year-old boy from Co Donegal murdered in the Omagh bomb had his life taken in the "most evil and barbaric fashion" his father told the inquiry

"If you look at the results of this heartless policy, they are terrifying." A new book focuses on the desperate letters written by many Jews seeking refuge in the Netherlands but who were denied entry after it closed its border in 1938.

I hope they succeed. www.rte.ie/news/munster...

More than three months since the closure of the eight-week public consultation on the draft policy plan and with little over two years left of the assembly’s mandate, it remains unclear when it will see the light of day www.irishnews.com/news/politic...