Fire Fighter Experience for Hen & Stag Parties

14/10/2025

Here we go again
Another week training in Tokyo

27/06/2025

Remembering James Dickey✊🇮🇪

The Irish Revolutionary was executed on this day in 1798.

James Dickey was a young barrister from a Presbyterian family in Crumlin a small village in Co Antrim.

According to the memoirs of James Burns from Templepatrick, during the 1798 rebellion in Co Antrim, Dickey had commanded the insurgents at Randalstown, and had killed Samuel Parker, a "traitor, with his own hands, while standing at his own door, where he went for the purpose"

On June 15th, Dickey, together with McCracken, James Hope, James Orr and about 50 other rebel survivors from the battle of Antrim arrived at Slemish, near Ballymena.

There they set up camp for three weeks before leaving under threat of attack from Colonel Green of the Tay Fencibles.

Dickey was captured by the Sutherland fencibles on Divis Mountain where he was hiding out. He was court-martialled and hanged at Corn Market, Belfast on 26 June 1798.

Famously; before his hanging Dickey refused to wear a black hood saying to the hangman:

"Sir, don't cover my face!" According to local legend, he shouted, "Don't think gentlemen I am ashamed to show my face among you I am dying for my country!"

Dickey was 22 years old. His head was placed on a spike outside the Market House on Belfast's High Street.

14/09/2024

16/08/2023

From Graceland gates to stages grand,
You shook the world with your guitar in hand.
A legend born in Tupelo's embrace,
You lit up hearts in every place.

Blue suede shoes and pompadour hair,
You had a style beyond compare.
Your music's magic, timeless and true,
Its been 46 years
Elvis, we'll always remember you

13/07/2023

Ireland 1847 - Asenath Nicholson “I gave a little boy a biscuit, and a thousand times since have I wished that it had been thrown into the sea; it could not save him. He took it between his bony hands, clasped it tight, and half-bent as he was, lifted them up, looked with his glaring eyes upon me, and gave a laughing grin that was truly horrible. The curate turned aside, and beckoned me away. ‘Did you see that horrid attempt to laugh? I cannot stay longer, was my answer’.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 100 images, 472 eye witness quotes. Signed copies at: www.jerrymulvihill.com

10/07/2023

Joe McDonnell died on hunger strike 42 years ago.

Oh, me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came
That city I will never see again
For in the town of Belfast, I spent many happy days
I love that town in oh-so many ways