The Five Minute Guide to Lisburn, NI Lisburn which sits right on the border between two counties. Antrim & Down has a long and innovative history as one of the industrial centres of Northern Ireland. Since 1698, it was the centre for linen production, leading the way for weaving throughout both the rest of Ireland…
Newtownabbey – County Antrim’s greatest treasure is sometimes called a suburb of Belfast. It’s not, it’s just close enough that the lines blur. In fact, a whole golf course and the famed Cavehill lies between the city of Belfast and the town of Newtownabbey. Although the third largest settlement in NI, Newtownabbey is not a…
Craigavon Made in the ’60s, named after a Viscount and built to last! Welcome to the Five Minute Spare quick guide to Craigavon what was the first of Nothern Irelands “New Town” experiments in the 1960s, nestled neatly in between Lurgan & Portadown (which now along with Bleary form part of the Craigavon Greater Urban…
Bangor – Northern Ireland in Under Five Minutes As usual, we here at Five Minutes Spare are desperate to explore the mean streets of Bangor, desperately seeking the dirt. By which, of course, we mean the gossip. We’re going to start several hundred years ago because, frankly, so did Bangor. Let’s see if we can…
Five Minutes Spare goes to Londonderry & Yes! Derry and Londonderry are the same place! Asides from settling that long-pondered question, we wanted to take a traditional Five Minutes Spare look at this fabled Irish treasure. This city is one of the five biggest cities in the whole island and takes its name from the…
Welcome To Our Five Minute (plus) Guide to Belfast… When you think of tourist destinations, even UK based ones Belfast probably doesn’t spring to mind, however as you will see when you read on it is a hidden gem, and it really has shrugged off its chequered history with aplomb. As befitting a Capital City…
Craig Taylor