PORTICO Blog

Announcing a new festival for Portaferry coming this September!

We were delighted to welcome a group from Peninsula Healthy Living to Portico this week.

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Did you know that the optimum speed for CPR is the rhythm of 'Nellie The Elephant'? You do now!

And if you don't know what Nellie The Elephant is then you may have veered away from TikTok by mistake ; ) 

On Saturday, First Aid trainer Diane Hollinger came to refresh our First Aid skills...

We had some very sad news this morning. Our lovely volunteer Gill Start has died. 

We were delighted to welcome the fresh new band REVÖLUTIØN to Portico to help us devise a new project...

We were delighted to be congratulated by the Fire Service for our speedy evacuation following the fire alarm at the Ciaran Bartlett gig.

☘️☘️☘️ Lots of St Patrick's Day craic at the Réalta gig today with Sharon and Debbie from Downpatrick, plus our Lovely Volunteers Clodagh and Molly on the gate and Celia on the drinks stall 😄

What happens when you commission two amazing composers to work together and do something different for our organ?

Watch this excerpt from this candlelit concert with Christian Forshaw - part of our Feel Good Festival.