A reminder that we are tiny in this world of power and energy. I've only seen the Northern Lights / Aurora happen a few times in my life,...

Ashley visited for a week and took some photographs of me in various walks of life. Ashely is from the world of TV and Movies and was...

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/watch-big-wave-surfer-al-mennie-releases-kids-book-about-keeping-the-ocean-and-beach-clean/...

It has been a crazy busy year but the website but we finally got round to getting the website freshened up. In fairness, it still needs a...

Thank you to everyone that ordered in the pre-order stage. I was not expecting such a far reaching interest in Billy so it is very...

This link to buy.... https://www.almennie.me/books . BILLY THE BASKING SHARK & THE SALTY SEA SWIMMERS This book is designed to educate...

Yesterday morning as I walked the beach with my dog Blyton, once again rubbish/trash left behind by visitors clogged the sand dunes and...

I am normally the one person you won’t find in the surf in anything less than a thin summer wetsuit. However, over the past six weeks I...

I've been adding Audio recordings to Spotify and Apple Books. There are a lot more to come. Here are links to a few of them....

I have been writing books since 2008. I have also written short stories and contributed to publications in books, magazines etc across...

It was a winter night in 1993, I was in Castlerock, on the end of my brothers bed watching a video about the infamous big waves at a spot...

It is that time of year again that the water is warming up and everyone is escaping to the water at the first chance. Paddle boarding has...

I recently hosted the University of Ulster Graduate Fashion Show 2023 in Belfast. The Runway show was produced by Style Academy Model...

I recently spoke at Inspire Week at a school in Northern Ireland. I spoke casually and told the children about all sorts of things from...

We lost a friend this week. I still can’t believe it has happened. Right now I’m writing and deleting, writing a bit more and then...

May isn't exactly prime time for great waves in this part of the world but we happen to have a run of winter style swell this week....

BALLYRONAN MARINA, 20TH MAY 2023 11AM PROTEST TO SAVE OUR OCEANS Contact @surfersagainstsewageni on instagram for more info. When I was a...

This is just a quick update to let you know we successfully completed SURF 154 Surf Through Darkness last night. I will add more here but...

Link to donate... https://www.darknessintolight.ie/fundraisers/almennie I've had a few people wondering how on earth I'm going to ride...

This is something I haven't planned until very recently. I felt as ambassador for the Darkness into Light Campaign that I could do more...