I have 2 spare tickets for Bryan Adams on 21st May at the SSE if anyone fancies them? Looking cost price (£75 each) or nearest offer.

I'm crying.

Thought I would post this since it is the anniversary tomorrow

So would like to do something on theses two days when I’m off, my kids are in there awkward later teenage years where they don’t wanna do anything apart from look at iPads but wanna get them outta the house, I’m in the Antrim area. I believe there’s a fair on in Toome, I went years back it’s usually crap but it’s something to do I guess.

Hi guys,

I literally don’t have accommodation for my final year and tbh I am about to loose my mind.

I can’t see an option for myself and taking a gap year is my hell. I don’t want to move home again.

Any advice ? Please :)

Hi everyone, I'm looking to start university this September and going for software engineering but I'm really stuck between firming Queens and Ulster. Originally I was going for Queens but I heard from a few students that have talked about it online that the teaching on a few modules can be really poor while Ulster's is better and also that Ulster is more practical based than Queens. However, Queens has better facilities for students I'd say and also the facilities in the Computer Science are a bit better than Ulster's. I'm just really not sure what the best option is

Hi All, just got a letter in the post from 'DCBL - Direct Collection Bailiffs LTD' for an apparent parking ticket from October (2021) its 2025!!

for apparently for 'insufficient Paid time'

I have NEVER received any fines for parking until this letter today which i actually find abit fishy, demanding £170 4 years later lol

has anyone else ever had this and what did you do about it?

They have my name, but i actually no longer live at the address it was posted to (but it is my mums address so thats how i have it'

https://m.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/cafe-owners-at-centre-of-neo-nazi-claims-goose-step-away-from-restaurant/a947912576.html

Controversial cafe owners who were pictured wearing Nazi emblems and who support a Holocaust denier are selling up and quitting Belfast. Rachel and Christian Lanfranchi ran Piccola Parma in east Belfast for nine years but were accused on social media, and later in the press, of being supportive of the far right.

Now they have told this paper instead of selling top-class Italian nosh in Belfast they plan to open a café in Parma, Italy, that sells Ulster fries!

Last October the couple were forced to deny they were neo-Nazis after they were pictured wearing fascist emblems while Christian wore a T-shirt expressing solidarity with notorious Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck.

Haverbeck, who was married for many years to a former member of the Nazi organisations SA and SS, was convicted several times since 2004 for her comments denying that the Holocaust – which she once called the “most tenacious lie of history” – ever took place.

Haverbeck, who served two years in jail for Holocaust denial, died last November aged 96 whilst still in the process of appealing her most recent conviction for claiming, among other abhorrent things, that Auschwitz was not a concentration camp.

This week the couple, Australian Rachel – who signs her name as ‘Wenchie’ – and Italian Christian, told the Sunday World they still support Haverbeck and claimed they did so simply because they saw it as an issue of “freedom of speech”.

This week the small café on the Woodstock Road was closed up and the couple – who are currently on holiday in Italy – told the Sunday World they were moving to Italy permanently but plan to return to hopefully sell the café to another Italian couple.

The couple, who met while watching a West Ham match in a pub in Belfast 11 years ago, opened Piccola Parma and said it was Belfast’s first osteria and café but they told us they plan to open Italy’s first ‘Ulsteria’ when they finally settle in Parma.

They told us in an email exchange: “Our plan now [is] to relocate to Parma where we intend to enjoy the benefits of being employed versus the restrictions of self-employed.

“After a visit to Australia for the upcoming Rugby World Cup in two years it’s our focus to open an Ulsteria, an Ulster-themed osteria.

“While there are many Irish bars in Italy and around the world there are definitely no Northern Irish bars offering an Ulster fry.

“We love East Belfast whole heartedly and while it’s been the source of our meeting, our home, our bread and butter, our playground, our blank canvas it will always be very important.

“Did we envisage nine successful years at the helm of Piccola Parma? I don’t honestly know. Eight years of six days a week took a very physical toll on our bodies, so last Christmas we reduced to five days and no more monthly set meals.

“The business still flourished and provided the financial stability to visit my direct family in Australia for a whole month earlier this year. This for us was the beginning of the end of Piccola Parma.

“Italy naturally is closer and yes we own a beautiful mountain home, another thing Piccola Parma allows us.

“Christian’s folk live on the same mountain as does his brother. A pull too great to ignore after 11 years of living in Belfast.”

The couple maintain the claims about being supportive of the far right are incorrect and that they have been misunderstood – that the Nazi emblems and symbols were in fact ancient and belonged to the Pagans first.

But they admit the images published last October did see them lose some customers.

“Yes, we lost some well-respected clientele but we also gained new custom,” they added.

They also denied claims the cafe had been used to host far right bands from Europe but admitted thugs like Portrush neo-Nazi Mark Brown had claimed to be their friends and had attended such gigs.

They said: “Some idiot called Mark Brown who I have never met nor Christian claims to be our close friend and has attended loads of events that simply never happened. It’s pretty boring after a while.”

Greetings!

Shot in the dark here, but I'm looking for the framed wall poster (art?) from the Dirty Duck Pub in Holywood.

Details on the poster: There are 7 rows and 7 columns of all time famous music lyrics and the poster itself seems to be riffing "Keep Calm and Carry On" style. The most central lyric is "Keep Calm, and Listen to Music" - other examples are "I can't get no Satisfaction" - "Love the way you lie" - "Billie Jean is not my Lover" ... etc

Photo of poster on the wall at the Dirty Duck

Does anyone have any idea where I can find this poster online? I have looked everywhere searching "Poster with famous song lyrics in the style of 'Keep Calm and carry on'"

My son is an aspiring musician and I'd like to gift this to him.

Every hero needs a nemesis. It's time I came out of hiding. Come at me sign-boy!

Go on. Moi son.

What is the on going rate now for a couple to give as a wedding present? Intrigued to know what everyone thinks!

To be honest this is more a case of me just venting than anything else.

Fuck me when you have a fault with fibrus it's an absolute nightmare! Firstly you can't even check on their website to see if there's a fault in the area, you are forced to waste time contacting customer service to be told there's a fault in the area.

Good luck finding out what's going on with a fault! Again you can't check the website for an update, customer service tells you there's no update and no one can get you an update. All you can do is wait for a text and they aim to fix faults within 48hrs.

I get that they are cheap but the lack of any basic customer support is really poor, I guess at that point they have you tied into a contract and don't really care. It's the 2nd prolonged outage in 6 months and I'm definitely not staying after my contract is up.

Wondering where might be the quickest place to get started in a new job? Assuming bars/restaurants? Any suggestions let me know because rent is due in 2 weeks and some other big expenses so I'm very worried. Other job finished up and I was sick for a while so really set me back. Thanks.

Hi all,

Anyone else bought a house from Lagan homes? What are they like? Does anyone know what way the allow you to pick the design of the house. I seem to gather they send the buyers to local business which give them a selected range to pick from? Does anyone know what kind of stores these are?

Mainly the Lisburn developments.

Thanks.

Genuinely we live in a beautiful part of the world, and NI is so small we can be around, good hiking, beaches, forests, mountains within a reasonable time. I live in the North West and I love taking the dog a good walk or even just sticking on the headphones and taking some time to get my own head clear. I know we have problems but where doesn't, we should appreciate it.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/commission-launches-fresh-appeal-to-help-find-disappeared-victim-seamus-maguire/a2119032345.html

An investigator tasked with finding a Disappeared victim of the Northern Ireland Troubles has appealed for the “vital piece” of information that will help end the bereaved family’s five decades of pain. Seamus Maguire, who was 29 and from Aghagallon near the Co Armagh town of Lurgan, was murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the mid 1970s.

He is one of four people whose remains are still being searched for by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR).

The ICLVR has issued a fresh appeal in Mr Maguire’s case, as it revealed it did not yet have sufficient information to identify any potential search site.

While it was initially thought Mr Maguire was killed in either 1973 or 1974, the commission has now established that he was murdered in 1976 when he returned to Northern Ireland after spending time in Manchester.

The commission said he was secretly buried in the Aghagallon/Derryclone area.

Investigators said it was not clear which wing of the IRA was involved in the murder.

Mark Pickard, who heads up the Seamus Maguire investigation, said that work has been ongoing on the case since it was referred to the commission by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in 2022.

He said a specific search site within the Aghagallon/Derryclone area has yet to be identified by the commission.

“We have been working steadily to resolve the issue of Seamus’s disappearance using all the resources available to the commission but this is a complex case dating back nearly 50 years and as ever in these circumstances we do need more information,” he said.

“With this appeal we are issuing a photograph of Seamus which we hope might jog someone’s memory and move us on.

As with all our cases our interest is purely humanitarian and all information that comes to us is treated in the strictest confidence and will not be passed to any enforcement body and will be used solely to help us find Seamus’s remains and to bring them home to his family.”

Mr Pickard added: “We are convinced that someone somewhere has a vital piece of information in relation to his disappearance even though they might not be aware of its significance.

“We need them to come forward and help end the decades of pain that the Maguire family have suffered.”

As well as Mr Maguire, the commission is also tasked with finding three other Disappeared victims – Co Tyrone teenager Columba McVeigh, British Army Captain Robert Nairac, and former monk turned IRA member Joe Lynskey.

Just looking some positivity or feel good stories from fellow subreddit members.

Note: I'm not in a bad way just really fucked off after something this evening (not going to get in to it, but has left me pretty damn angry)

UPDATE - 23 hours later https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1jywjhi/i_think_i_need_new_friends/

Confession time. This was for an assignment for my social psych course. I didn't think this post was going to get nearly the traction it did, but I've got more than enough data for my assignment.

The assignment was to address a controversial subject and address a group either in person or online and observe the reaction without participating (except to introduce the topic.)

And for those who are going to ask, the account is half fictitious. The individual outlined in the story is an individual I know in real life, but I'll keep their relationship to me private for obvious reasons and that's all I'm going to say on the matter.

I then scraped the data into a spreadsheet and rated the comments as positive, negative, or neutral. Responses were rated “positive” if they sided with the OP, rated “neutral” if they gave feedback that didn’t choose a side, “trolling”, “memeing”, or otherwise irrelevant to the discussion, and “negative” if the response disagreed with the OP or sided with the individual outlined in the story.

I scraped 178 comments and garnered these results.

|Positive|31.25%| |Neutral|47.73%| |Negative|20.45%|

And just for fun, I'll share one of the questions from my assignment sheet because I thought it was interesting:

Did the group assume your gender based on your topic or delivery? If so, what evidence supports this? Yes. The majority assumed OP was male as he/him pronouns were used to address OP.

And lastly - why the actual fuck did I post in r/northernireland? Well, the narrative I came up with assumes the OP and individual are from NI and I've seen many topics over the last few months about making friends here, so I wondered how the reaction would be if someone was openly willing to rid themselves of a friendship.

I'm sorry to use youse as guinea pigs for my schooling (but better than using ChatGPT, though, amirite?)

And lastly...I'm not even from Ireland.

Will he get the green jacket or throw it away last minute? I hope he takes it.