You never know who you’re going to bump into in Dock Cafe…

Joining Mark Simpson, Naomi Long and (of course) Eamonn Holmes in the Dock Cafe Celeb Hall of Fame, Belfast’s First Citizen called in for a cuppa this morning…

And the Lord Mayor didn’t just call in for a quick visit and a photoshoot: he properly sat down, drank a cuppa, met the gang, chatted and chilled and shared ideas and stories with a mix of people from all sorts of different backgrounds.

Another slice of Dock Cafe Life in action.  And another snapshot of the new day we are living in.  Look how much has changed in the short year that Councillor O’Donnghaile has been in office: we met on 31st May last year, right at the beginning of his term of office,  on the cracked concrete wasteland of the unrestored slipways, in the shadow of the building site of Titanic Belfast, to mark the anniversary of Titanic’s launch in a city that still held to the culture of “We don’t talk about Titanic…”

Back then, Titanic’s anniversary still seemed an age away.  And Dock Cafe wasn’t even a pipe-dream.

How times change…