Bout Ye: Ciaran Long

Following an outstanding scoring season with the Manchester Storm, the EIHL’s British Player of the Year, Ciaran Long, joins the Belfast Giants for the 2019/20 season. Long is a product of the Swindon hockey system having worked his way through to first play with the Wildcats in 2005/06 at EPIHL level before making more of... Continue Reading →

See Ya: Blair Riley

Following 3 seasons with the Belfast Giants, Blair Riley has taken the decision not to fulfil his 2 year contract and to move on from the organisation, with strong rumours of him remaining within the EIHL. Riley leaves the Giants having captained the team to the highest level of single season success achieved in the almost 20 years of the... Continue Reading →

See Ya: Colin Shields

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain………. the records show I took the blows, and did it my way. The words may belong to Sinatra, the sentiments belong to the greatest British player of the modern era, and this weekend marks the end of that era, the Colin Shields era,... Continue Reading →

A Little Raw

Reflecting on a night of heartbreak for the Belfast Giants, A View From The Bridge's Patrick Smyth discusses how he feels today. I wanted to write this while the pain was still a little raw. It would be all too easy to let it all subside, reflect on the glories and shrug your shoulders at... Continue Reading →

The Whiteboard: Find A Way

FC Hockey Media's Noel Gillespie breaks down a thrilling climax to the EIHL's regular season- which is going right to the wire at both ends of the table. It should have been over. The Belfast Giants and the Cardiff Devils both went into this past weekend knowing that any loss could hand the 2018/19 Elite... Continue Reading →

AVFTB LIVE – TONIGHT

A View From The Bridge LIVE returns to McCools at the SSE Arena this TONIGHT, following the Belfast Giants v Fife Flyers game, the one of the final games of the regular season. Patrick Smyth,  Simon Kitchen and Joel Neill will be joined on stage by a number of special guests to reflect on what has been a successful... Continue Reading →

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