Great to meet wirh Geraldine Connon, who has a new book about her family moving from what is now Ukraine to Belfast & how they built a life here.
Called 'The Russian Tailor', great to hear stories about those making Belfast their home.
Thanks for the intro, Gerardine!
Thanks a million for inviting us. We are honoured to have had the opportunity to serve the community of NI throughout the pandemic. We really appreciate this recognition from the Office of the Lord Mayor of Belfast. @cggbamford@LindsayBbent@WWIEM_QUB@MHLSQUB@QUBVChancellor
A trip out to Schomberg House, the Orange Order HQ, to see their exhibition, including one looking at the Platinum Jubilee. Pleased to be join by the Deputy Lord Mayor, Ald. Tom Haire.
A real privilege to welcome some of the really heroes of the pandemic from the Virology Dept at @QUBelfast and present Lord Mayor Certificates to @UltanPower@LindsayBbent and Connor Bamford.
Our city is so proud of all your work in keeping us safe. nitter.fdn.fr/CllrMichaelLong/…
We visited North Belfast Primary Schools to check out their Walking Busses, with Lord Mayor @CllrMichaelLong joining in too.
Would you like to see more 'Walking Busses' throughout the city?
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Positivity!
Great to attend the @BelfastBID launch of their city centre programme including the floral Belfast sign outside City Hall.
A great programme of events to help encourage more visitors to our City.
Great to meet a lot of visitors from the USA today and to show off our City Hall. Students from Harvard this morning and @krocschool in San Diego this afternoon! You are all most welcome!
A close encounter with some native black Irish bees at he launch of the 80th anniversary of the Belfast & District Beekeepers' Association at City Hall
Pleased to attend the launch of Flaxx in Brunswick St inc outdoor seating, stage & container with food outlet. Opening soon.
Provides new social hub & step towards reclaiming some of the city centre streets from the car.
Need more of this for a liveable & sustainable Belfast.
Massive thank you to Lord Mayor @CllrMichaelLong for a tour and a cuppa this morning in Lord Mayor’s Parlour at City Hall and hosting the Harvard visitors and I! They were so impressed by the efforts to diversify City Hall!
Thanks as well to @PatriciaOLynn for organising :)
Following the Yellow Brick Road!
At the #walkingbus to @ourladysgirlsps. Beautiful morning for it and great to see more sustainable transport initiatives like this.
Comparing our chains with the Lord Mayor Of Dublin @AlisonGilliland, the Mayor of Derry & Strabane @grahamwarke, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, Tony Fitzgerald & the DM of the City & County of Limerick Tom Ruddle at the Irish Network of Learning Cities meeting today.