Johnny Caldwell
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Radio producer @BBCNewsNI , Goonie, trivia geek & bearded photo-taking coffee addict 🧔🏻☕️🍏📻 Email: johnny.caldwell @bbc .co.uk
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Armagh not included on
#CityofCulture2025
shortlist, still plenty of culture though:
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☘️ My traditional sharing of The Muppets’ incomparable version of Danny Boy in honour of St Patrick… Shake your shamrocks for Animal, the Swedish Chef & Beaker… 🤓☘️
#StPatricksDay
#StPatricksDay2024
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☘️ It’s that time of year again! My annual share of The Muppets’ unforgettable version of Danny Boy.
Back for
#StPatricksDay2023
are Animal, Swedish Chef & Beaker:
#HappyStPatricksDay
#StPatricksDay
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Scotland feels close enough to touch today on the Antrim Coast (at Fair Head) 🤓
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I clearly had to stop & take a pic… Best road sign ever… 🤓
(Malin Head, County Donegal)
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Michael Palin has described the train journey between Derry and Coleraine as “one of the most beautiful rail journeys in the world”. This pic I took recently at Mussenden Temple/Downhill Strand hopefully gives you an idea why... 🤓
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Belfast: Harland and Wolff's horn sounds as a tribute to health service staff and other key workers during
#ClapForCarers
#Covid19
#AllInThisTogether
@BBCNewsNI
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Locals paying their own tribute to the record-breaking temperature in Ballywatticock in County Down… 🤓
@barrabest
@MaryforDerry
@WeatherCee
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Tynan Railway Station in County Armagh, which closed in 1957... I took this pic around this time last year… The red area on the map in attached tweet (⬇️) shows where this station once connected into a vast railway network across the island of Ireland... 🥲
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County Armagh principal cancels written homework in the hope that children will go outside and enjoy themselves or discover a new hobby... 🤓
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One of the beautiful beaches on Vatersay (Outer Hebrides, Scotland) yesterday morning:
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I still think we need a blue plaque on the house where Jason 'the really big dog' lived on Belfast’s Ravenhill Road. Jason made the news at the end of February 1973 when he found his way back to Belfast having been rehomed 20 miles away… 🐶
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Sunshine reflected on the River Lagan (Belfast) 🤓
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Not only does this phone in the picturesque (County Down) village of Strangford actually work, but you can help yourself to a thriller while you’re on the blower... 🤓
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I love it when people put a lot of thought/possibly too much thought into the name of their business: A chip van I spotted in Ardara (County Donegal) last night 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Brian O'Driscoll at the
#Twelfth
in Loughgall (County Armagh) has to be one of the stories of the day... Don’t know who deserves credit for this screengrab:
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Tomorrow on
@BBCgmu
we begin a week-long series looking at our railways. We start by exploring how it came about that large parts of Northern Ireland are no longer served by a railway (obviously there is an all-island context to this). Pix: railway network in 1908 & today 🚆
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Chippy with a pint of milk... Sometimes you have to let your inner culchie out... 😋
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First time walking past Harland and Wolff (Belfast) since the Christmas lights went up... And of course I had to take a pic... 🤓
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Dramatic pic of reindeer at Phil’s Farm outside Newtownhamilton (County Armagh) taken earlier tonight. Pic credit: Phil’s Farm 🤓
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Superb wordplay… 🤓
Delighted this chip van is still going strong…
I’m stood across the street in Ardara, County Donegal, with a smile on my face…
So clever…
🤓
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Harland and Wolff cranes all lit up for Christmas 2022… 🤓
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A shopping centre in east Belfast having a bit of craic with their face covering reminders... And most people I saw there this morning were indeed ‘covering their bakes’ 🤓⬇️
#CoverYerBake
#FaceCoverings
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Who needs the big smoke? Beautiful Gleno (County Antrim) 🤓
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This train journey (Derry to Coleraine) never gets old… 🤓
(This is part of the stretch at Downhill Strand)
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Fire crews dampening down houses ahead of Craigyhill bonfire in Larne (County Antrim) being lit tonight:
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The crystal blue waters of the Irish Sea (yes, you’ve read that correctly...) earlier this afternoon 😎
(Just below the famous Antrim Coast Road approaching Glenarm)
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Tynan Railway Station in County Armagh which closed in 1957... Pix from today... Fascinating place... 🤓 The red area on pic four shows where the station once connected into a vast railway network across the island of Ireland... 😢 More pix from today in tweet below ⬇️
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Finally did this today… 🤓
(Cuilcagh Boardwalk, County Fermanagh)
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It took less time to pass through security at Belfast International Airport this afternoon than it did to get a coffee at Starbucks (I support local when I can). We rightly complain when security checks take longer than they should so I’m just marking this improved service... 🤓
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Emerald city: Armagh’s two cathedrals lit up in green for St Patrick’s Day 2024 ☘️
(I took these pix tonight amid a light drizzle in the Orchard County capital)
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County Armagh not Lapland! Amazing pix (taken today) of reindeer at Phil’s Farm outside Newtownhamilton 🤓
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Galboly Hidden Village (County Antrim): Not exactly hidden, but definitely worth a stop if you’re on the fab Antrim Coast Road… Pic taken about an hour ago… 🤓
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Brilliant new mural by
@dankitchener
in the Shankill area of Belfast... 🤓
(Also a big fan of his mural on the edge of the Cathedral Quarter)
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Isle of Man (look closely 🤓) as seen from between Ballyhornan & Ardglass (County Down) 🇮🇲
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County Armagh’s highest point: view from Slieve Gullion Passage Tomb earlier this afternoon (before the rain) 🤓
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Timing is everything: Delighted to catch this train to Derry disappearing into the tunnel beneath Mussenden Temple earlier today… What a fantastic stretch of railway… 🤓
@RailDerry
@MaryforDerry
@Translink_NI
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Sunrise, as seen from Franklin Street in Belfast earlier this morning... 😎
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County Cork, you are beautiful... Pic taken (with my battered iPhone) at Nohoval Cove... 🤓
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Stormont lit up blue to show support for the amazing work being done by all our health service staff and other key workers... 🤓
@mlchealth
@CathSmyth1
@BBCNewsNI
#ClapForCarers
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#Covid19
#AllInThisTogether
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Hell’s Hole, Malin Head (County Donegal)
(I filmed this yesterday while showing this beautiful part of the world to some Canadian visitors)
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One of my favourite buildings in Belfast: Ewart’s Warehouse (on Bedford Street) which dates from around 1870.
(I took this pic on the way to work last month)
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Sometimes it’s good to look up… 🤓
(The fantastically painted facade of Belfast’s Spaniard Bar… Been in here countless times, never really appreciated how fab this is… Pic taken today)
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Yes, it’s technically graffiti, but how nice that it’s heart-shaped... ❤️ Spotted outside St Malachy’s Church on Alfred Street in central Belfast... 🤓
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Superb sunrise sky (as seen from east Belfast a short time ago) 🤓
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Bangor Marina (County Down) just now... Chilly enough out... 🥶
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#StPatricksDay2020
: Armagh’s two cathedrals lit up in glorious green in honour of everyone’s favourite saint ☘️
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All lit up for Christmas 2021: Harland & Wolff (Belfast) just now… 🤓
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First time walking along the Sallagh Braes (in County Antrim) today and they definitely didn’t disappoint:
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Brilliant to see our beautiful North Coast from the sea today… That’s one of the viewing platforms at Magheracross… 🤓
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Donegal, you always leave me wanting more… 🤓
Maghera Beach from one of the caves there earlier today…
Simply stunning…
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One of a number of apparitions on tonight’s ghost tour in Armagh (part of the Georgian Festival) 😱
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If you’re going to have double carbs, make sure it’s extra tasty...
This weekend’s traditional treat: a cheese & onion crisp sandwich 😋
(All County Armagh ingredients too)
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Another fab new mural by
@dankitchener
in the Shankill area of Belfast.
I went up for a look this morning... 🤓
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The Mournes and Newcastle (County Down) from a beautiful but blowy Murlough Beach... 🤓
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🚆 Much has been said & written about the views from train between Derry and Coleraine…
Views like this at Downhill Strand today… 😍
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The brilliant wordplay stopped me in my tracks in Ardara, County Donegal, on a summer’s night in 2018. This chip van remains one of my favourite fun/pun business names... I’ve shared it before but definitely worth another wee run out... 🤓
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Sometimes a good pic op just presents itself… 🤓
(Belfast City Centre earlier today)
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Madonna celebrates her 60th birthday tomorrow (Thursday). Sadly, she’s the only one of the ‘big five’ pop acts from the 80s to reach this landmark: Whitney Houston (48), Michael Jackson (50) George Michael (53) and Prince (57).
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The Bailie family from Netownhamilton (County Armagh) have used the recent snow to build something ‘udderly’ original... A life-size replica of a Charolais bull. Pic credit: Nadene Bailie 🐮
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Today turned out glorious... And fortunately I happened to be in Whitehead (County Antrim) at the time... 🤓
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Another wee video I took along the North Coast (just past the Giant’s Causeway) earlier this week… 🤓
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Fifteens ice cream is an actual thing and you can get it in Portstewart 😋
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Beautiful Ballintoy (County Antrim) a short time ago… 🤓
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🍏 Heaven is indeed a place on earth, and it’s closer than you think... I give you the Orchard County... 🍏 Fab pic from
@visit_armagh
... 🤓
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“There are only three railway stops west of the (River) Bann (in Northern Ireland) compared to 51 in the east,” said Steve Bradley at a meeting of the ‘Into the West’ campaign group tonight. This Irish Rail image doesn’t show the three stops, but illustrates the disparity:
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Carrick-a-Rede (County Antrim) about ten minutes ago… 🤓
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This weekend’s traditional treat: apple potato bread 😋
(Bought on the Woodstock/Cregagh Road, East Belfast)
Hoping those are Armagh apples in there... 🤓
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Sunday evening bliss in the Mournes (let’s not mention it’s back to work in the morning...) 🤓
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Stunning Whiterocks Beach (County Antrim) a short time ago… 🤓
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This time last week my big red face & I were enjoying stunning views like this in the majestic Mournes... 🤓
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Great pic of the Balls on the Falls/Westicles/RISE taken using a drone camera (credit: Robert Lukaszuk) 🤓
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Tonight my inner culchie demanded ‘egg in a cup’. Two in fact, with butter and a wee taste of salt... 🤓
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.
@DanKitchener
’s latest addition to Belfast’s vibrant street art scene… 🤓
(It’s a mural of the Ormeau Bridge at the junction of University Street & the Ormeau Road (in south Belfast))
#BelfastStreetArt
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Champ potato bread & it’s still warm... 😋😋😋
(Woodstock/Cregagh Road, East Belfast)
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No idea who first put marshmallows, cherries, digestive biscuits, coconut & condensed milk in a bowl together, but I’m very glad they did...
This weekend’s traditional treat: Fifteens 😋
(Bought on the Woodstock/Cregagh Road, East Belfast)
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Lovely sunset tonight (as seen from Sydenham Road, east Belfast) 🤓
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Look away now anyone trying to cut down on carbs...
This weekend’s traditional treat is a sausage roll bap... 😋
I was first introduced to this delicacy by
@barrabest
.
(Component parts bought in east Belfast)
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Out stretching the legs in Victoria Park (in east Belfast) and your man/woman here has to go one better... 🤓
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Potato bread freshly basked this morning (in one of east Belfast’s fine home bakeries) 😋
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BREAKING: The drug PrEP is to be provided at a new regional HIV Prevention Clinic in Belfast. It’ll be part of the Belfast Trust’s Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) provision. The pilot clinic will run for an initial two years. More on
@BBCTalkback
📻
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“Have you got your wee vaccine okay?”
(As said by one of the amazing, endlessly cheerful, professional staff at the SSE Arena vaccination centre (in Belfast) today)
So I’ve joined the club and had my first COVID vaccine... No crazy side effects yet... 🤓
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My mane man Aslan… 🤓
(I took this pic this morning while out getting a coffee. The impressive sculpture at C.S. Lewis Square (in east Belfast) is by the internationally renowned artist Maurice Harron)
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🚆 Armagh railway update:
@abcb_council
’s Economic Development & Regeneration Committee has agreed to spend £7,500 on a feasibility study into reopening the railway line between Armagh (City) and Portadown. Obviously, this has to go before full council... 🚆
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I know absolutely nothing about cars, but I just had to take a pic of this little beauty outside Millisle on the Ards Peninsula... 🤓
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It was only when I got home that I realised that this otherwise fabulous Fifteen (bought here in County Armagh) had been made WITHOUT cherries… If this traybake travesty can happen here, it can happen anywhere... 😔
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Artist Peachzz finishing off a fab new piece of street art on the Cregagh Road in east Belfast this afternoon… 🤓
#BelfastStreetArt
#Peachzz
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Kilmore Cottage: I’ve done a report about efforts to save & restore the cottage in the centre of Kilmore (County Armagh) for Your Place and Mine
@bbcradioulster
. It’ll be broadcast this Saturday (8th October) between 8 & 9am 📻
#YPAM
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Just now at Magheracross Viewing Point (County Antrim) 🤓
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Gosford Castle (County Armagh) just now in some welcome autumnal sunshine... 🤓
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