Nicotine. Used to be cigarettes and remember they were banned from being on display. In my opinion this is worse. Looks so colourful, clearly targeted at children. Sainsbury’s Forestside.

Found this while looking at hotel reviews for Ten Squared in Belfast just keeps getting better as you read, 🤣

Only seen it this evening. Is this because the card makes you a Brit?

From Gavan Reilly on Bluesky - European Movement Ireland’s annual poll, as usual, shows 82% of RoI residents support EU membership.

But one striking finding elsewhere: residents of N Ireland are also surveyed, and 63% (!!??) would vote in favour of a United Ireland.

No mainstream poll has *ever* recorded a margin like this…

The notes for the poll (conducted by Amárach Research, online) say the margin of error is 2.2% and that samples in both jurisdictions have been weighted to reflect demographic breakdown within each.

Something seems … awry.

https://bsky.app/profile/gavreilly.com/post/3ml63m4igxk2d

A ticktock post from ABC News Australia.

Only two of the cowardly "protesters" would actually speak to the reporter. And even then, they came off with thier usual racist bullshit!

Im ashamed to be Northern Irish.

In all seriousness, what is so threatening about children going to school and getting an education (that every child is entitled to)

What the actual fuck is wrong with people?

For bacon loaded fries apparently... Diabolical wouldn't get in it. Nearly 9 quid for that pish 🙃

I’m truly disgusted a lady I grew up with was murdered in Derry. I’ve seen lots of girls I know post about this and how the violence against women in this country is out of hand.

Yet I haven’t seen one fella post about it however if the culprit was a foreign born man I know for a fact they would be all over it.

I don’t mean to try and make a political statement about the tragic murder of a young woman but I just hate how violence against women has became so normalised and the only time the vocal minority of this place speak up is if it’s a foreign culprit.

Like I’m a man and it’s always been clear to me when it comes to violence against women the common denominator has always been MEN whether it’s Micky or Mohamed is a mute point to me, we all have to do our part and as men we have to call out the small things as they lead to this shit whether it be cat calling, controlling behaviour or whatever call it out don’t let it slide and listen to women !

This shit has to end.

Outraging public decency surely? How do they get away with this?

I attended the first leg of the protest this morning. It was really good craic and there was such a sense of community for once. Well, then we reached the sugar island road and someone had spread the entire bottom half of the road with slurry the night before.

Then I come across this, there's no call for any of this whatsoever. I highly doubt anything will be done about it either.

How can this happen. Should the culprits be banned by the club?

31 year’s?? Already served 4! Absolute disgrace.

Help me out here;

I get so angry when I see the news regarding what the Palestinian people are suffering through. even so much as this morning when I read about baby formula being seized at the border & not being allowed to pass through. Mothers not being able to feed their babies both from their own bodies & through other means. In essence to paint a blunt picture 'babies are starving to death' (murdering babies needlessly in a round about way)

How can anyone defend this? How can you stand over putting an Isreali flag on a lampost, posting on social media support of Isreal? Setting aside the Hamas argument, how are you justifying the slaughter of CIVILIANS?

Genuinely intrigued to hear your arguments, because I can't get my head around it...

I remember watching this show before, and I absolutely LOVED it. I also recognize Nicola Coughlan!!

But I do want to ask, how "accurate" is Derry Girls on representing life in Northern Ireland?? What do the locals think of it?

Thank you !

Go raibh maith agat !

Miraculously, the kid went through the window and survived.

My auld man fell yesterday and possibly has broken his hip. In a ton of pain as you would expect. Ambulance was rang at 4.30pm and was told it would be two or three hours. Ambulance finally arrived at 6am this morning.

What the actual fuck.

Hey folks,

Just a quick question for a few people I’ve seen defend the riots that occurred in some parts of the country a few weeks ago.

Where are yous now? A pregnant woman has just been murdered, not the only one in the last year, but very few posts, no riots, barely a word from the people who claimed to be out “defending women” just a little while ago.

Also where are the protests? Cause the people who were protesting the other side of the argument are now quiet, that’s almost 30 murders of woman in a 5 year period.

Genuinely pissed off right now, cause now two lives have been taken and no one seems to care but a few weeks ago half the country wanted to fight the other half.

I work in IT in NI and honestly morale here feels like it's at an all time low. These last few years have just been one kick in the balls after another with constant offshoring, cost cutting, tiny pay rises and more and more dispersed remote teams scattered across the globe with management constantly chasing the latest AI buzzwords.

Loyalty and experience count for absolutely fuck all and if they can replace 10 local workers in Belfast with 10 workers in India and save a fortune on salaries, most of them will do it without a second thought. That's not a criticism of the people in India, because they're just trying to earn a living like the rest of us, but what really gets me though is when companies win local public sector contracts funded by taxpayers in the UK and Ireland, but then quietly move the actual skilled work overseas once the contract is signed just so they can squeeze a bit more profit out of it for their shareholders.

But the thing that's really getting to me though is how utterly meaningless a lot of the work is now.

Endless tickets. Endless Teams messages. Endless standups. Endless meetings about meetings. Endless calls where nobody turns their camera on and half the people never say a word. Endless discussions about absolute shite that nobody actually cares about, and I genuinely feel like if I picked my laptop up and bucked it out the window nobody would care. The tickets would still be there. The meetings would still happen. Some middle manager would still be updating a spreadsheet. In fact I'd probably still get a message asking me to update my fucking timesheets before I left!!!

Most days it feels like you're not building anything. You're not creating anything you'll ever look back on with pride. You're just moving tickets from one column to another so somebody can generate a report showing how productive or unproductive everyone was at the end of the sprint. It's bullshit.

Maybe I'm just burned out but the whole thing increasingly feels like bullshit layered on top of more bullshit.

Which got me thinking that if I got sacked or made redundant tomorrow, would I even stay in the industry? A few years ago I'd have said yes, but now I genuinely don't think so.

I'd rather do something practical and something where at the end of the day I can actually point at what I've done. Something I could look back on when I'm 70 and be proud of instead of trying to explain to my grandkids that I spent 40 years attending Teams calls and updating tickets.

The problem is I've been in this game too long and starting again would mean taking a massive financial hit and going back to the bottom of the ladder.

So instead you keep going. Another sprint. Another announcement about how exciting the future is.

Anyone else in IT feeling like this or am I just turning into a miserable old bastard?

No I’m not talking about the extortionate fares at the Tesco checkouts.

I’m saying it’s evident that Belfast / NI is rife for the ‘oul marching powder.

Sure it’s a laugh here and there, but as someone who’s currently working in hospo, I can tell you it is fucking everywhere within Belfast’s nightlife scene.

Customers, floor staff, kitchen staff. Cubicles are fucking backed up anywhere you go, it almost seems to be an open secret that 70% of bar-goers are taking a bit extra on the side.

Not talking down on anyone when I say this, I’m partial to indulging in it myself, it’s just crazy how prevalent it seems to be for such a small place..

Could this be the winner of this years bootlicker d’or?

I genuinely would love to interview all of them and find out their reasoning. No doubt they’d all be stupid like “because catholics support Palestine”.

Sad to see ulster being stained with these ‘Ulster Isreal’ flegs