Year: 2015

Ballymena Today – Music Tuesday

Music Tuesday is fast becoming one of our favourite blog posts to create. This week we are delighted to introduce (and reintroduce) some of our favourite local musicians – New Ancestors. We have been listening to them for a long time, and under their original set up as the 1930’s and we are happy to see them going from strength to strength. In April this year we flocked to Spotify to get our ears around the first listen of the New Ancestors new EP Annabelle. Have a look below. This is the first EP that the New Ancestors have...

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The Breakfast Club – Braid Film Theatre Ballymena

Ballymena Braid FilmTheatre is planning to show The Breakfast Club on Thursday 25th June 2015. The Breakfast Club starred actors known as the Brat Pack – Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy and was released thirty years ago. It was written, produced and directed by John Hughes who was also responsible for films like Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller’s Day off and we are excited to watch it again on a big screen. The Breakfast Club follows some students who have been summoned to attend a Saturday...

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Portglenone Community Rescue Service Needs You

At Ballymena Today we often blog about the work of the Portglenone Community Rescue Service who help to provide rural and urban search, water rescue and community support and education. The team is made up of volunteers and rely on community fundraising to fund lots of their vital training and to buy equipment. Portglenone Community Rescue Service Needs You Portglenone Community Rescue Service have been shortlisted as the Local Charity of the year by Sainsburys in Ballymena. Sainsburys say: It’s important we continue to make a positive difference to our customers’ communities, and our colleagues. Every year customers and colleagues at...

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Slemish Market Garden Supper club – Follow Coffee Co Ballymena

Follow Coffee Co in Ballymena are the latest venue to host the Slemish Market Garden Supper club. The popular Supper Club has appeared in several Ballymena location and diners have been raving about the beautiful meals which they have enjoyed. Slemish Market Garden Supper club – Follow Coffee Co Ballymena At Follow Coffee Co chef Rob Curley will return again to prepare a 7 course gourmet treat. Curley uses local fresh produce to give his diners the very best that Northern Ireland has to offer. As always produce has been provided by the hard working folks out at Slemish Market...

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Only in Ballymena – Ballymena Today Blog our local Favourites 2

A few weeks ago Ballymena Today blogged some of our favourite thing which can only happen in Ballymena. Basically they are the thing that we would not want to miss out on if we were visiting Ballymena for the first time. Since our blog post we have been chatting to some folks who gave us some new suggestions. Here we go with round two! Feeding the Ducks in the People’s Park – As a child it is a rite of passage to feed a massive loaf to the duck. In our memory we remember turning up to the People’s...

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