First post

Well this is the first post of my second blog.

As you may, or may not know, I was the previous writer of the now defunct Belfast Stoop blog. The Stoop was my first attempt at blogging and became a rather time consuming effort as I felt the need to write on practically every topic under the sun from council meetings, to the US Presidential election, to party politics and much much more. In fact practically the only thing I never did was write film reviews.

This new blog is my attempt to get back into the blogging but this time to focus more on the quality and not the quantity. So instead of feeling the need to write five or six or even seven times a week just for the sake of writing I'm going to try and focus on one or two issues a week.

The idea of the blog will be to give you an insight into my role as an SDLP councillor in Belfast and hopefully we can engage in a bit of banter about politics in the North in general.