Bruce

@JamieBrysonLLB Tinfoil hat man

Hearts deserve to win the league. But they won’t. They’ve been cheated & shafted. The world knows. Celtic will get their tainted title, delivered via the hand of referees who have been corrupted, but everyone knows they cheated to get there. Martin O’Neill’s respect as a football man has been tarnished beyond repair given he has happily been involved in whatever corruption has occurred to buy off the officials. I’d rather be a Rangers, or even Hearts, fan and lose the league, than be part of that shameless corrupt cheating cabal. We will never be like them. And be grateful for it.

@GOLDBABYO @Li2buck Because you. Use so. Many. Full stops.

@Li2buck Why ?

My husband is a plumber. Emergency calls. Late nights. Got called. Midnight. Burst pipe. Apartment flooding. Single mom. Two kids. Water everywhere. Fixed it. Took three hours. Bill was $400. She had $50. He said “That’s fine.” She knew. Said “It cost more.” He said “That’s what you have. That’s the price.” She tried to pay more later. He refused. She started sending clients. Everyone she knew. My husband’s business grew. Because of her. She became a landlord. Small building. Has a policy.

@MatthewOToole2 I have no desire for my children to grow up in a country poisoned by Reform policies and led by a man who sycophantically aligns himself with Donald Trump. Many in the 'undecided' camp in NI will wake up today to the final straw they needed to expand their horizons

The UK consists of three First Ministers who don’t want to be in it and a country whose prime minister-in-waiting thinks a united Ireland is inevitable.

@JonBurrowsMLA 1/2 They weren’t errors. The PSNI’s revolting behaviour in the Katie Simpson case was the predictable and inevitable result of ‘institutional misogyny’. Ascribing the failure to mistakes just doesn’t cut it. The controversies just keep on coming. The PSNI is not fit for purpose.

@anishmoonka @mir_ocall What a snowflake. Ordering the murder and starvation of millions of people from behind the comfort and safety of your cosy desk and then whinging about feeling a bit down.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

@BaronoftheMaine @squinteratn Terence you cannot express a 'simple view' about terrorism in NI without clarifying what you consider to be terrorism. Obvs the dictionary definition would consider many of the activities of the RUC, UDR, BA, MI5/6 etc etc, to be terrorism.

Great question. There is a wide diversity of opinion on this. My simple view is that all terrorism in Northern Ireland was, and is wrong. However, the justification for the apparent discrepancy you have pointed out might be: The vast, vast majority of Orange Order/ABOD occasions are not commemorations of Loyalist Paramilitary figures. Attending these events are not endorsements of Loyalist Paramilitaries or their actions. IRA commemorations are just that, commemorating terrorism (in the eyes of PUL, I appreciate yourself and others hold different views). It is one thing to attend an event in which some of those attending are apologists for terrorism, and actively attending a commemoration itself. If we held both of those scenarios as equal, Stormont would never sit, given the on-the-record past activities of some of our MLA’s. To be clear, I consider this to be a flimsy excuse. Hope this helps.

I'm long on record as saying attempts to stop communities remembering those they respect/admire are utterly futile. So let them proceed, where wanted, or at least condoned. In that context, I'm asking unionist friends a question for an article. I genuinely don't have an answer.

@aikial1977 @BaronoftheMaine @mmago75645 Most Irish people are descendents of Norman's, so why would is it ironic that they have the same religion? As you know, Norman's became "more Irish than the Irish themselves" just as the British planters in Ireland are gradually becoming.

@BaronoftheMaine @mmago75645 There's a sectarian belief amongst many Irish/British-Irish RCs that this British Isle is really only for RCs. Which is ironic because it was the Norman invaders who violently enforced Roman Catholicism in the 12th Century &now there are already more muslims than Gaelic speakers.

Ulster Uni alumnus here, As a student, a witnessed many students in 1916 Easter Rising commemorative GAA tops, Celtic/ROI football shorts. You know what I never saw? A single Rangers shirt. Why is that? The cold house. Just like the South after partition. You can be a Unionist, so long as you shut up and comply.

@RealDonKeith A lot of support for what Ms Eastwood says from English people. Did you know however, that the English send £13 Billion to NI every year. Imagine how much better off you would be if you didn't have to do this? That's MORE than you sent to the EU.

@SimonBrundish Adjusted for inflation Simon aye

This is the most expensive team Liverpool have ever started

@arlowhite No.

Are Man City getting docked 60pts?!! That would put them in the relegation zone but only 6 pts behind Spurs, who are temporarily reprieved, but City have a game in hand. That relegation battle would be rather interesting 😳

@david_parker @R055C089 Ireland has been receiving immigrants since the mesolithic hunter gatherers in 8000BC. Later vikings, anglo-normans, etc. To be Irish is to come from everywhere. So I don't know who is getting wiped off the face of the earth?

Ireland now has 23% of its population as foreign born. If they do not rise up now, they will be wiped off the face of the Earth.

@PunnenLFC11 @Bossquxts Cheick Doucoure from Palace was the go-to when Ugarte went to PSG. Along with Thuram from Nice. We're all as bad though. All convinced Yohan Bakayoko from PSV was the next Balon D'or etc

Never forget that Dave Hendrick's replacement for Fabinho was Manuel Ugarte.

@BBCNewsNI Clickbait headline. I read the full article and nowhere does it mention what is actually meant by flooding the lake.

Could you really flood Lough Neagh - the UK's largest inland lake - to try and deal with the ecological crisis being caused by blue-green algae? bbc.in/4c1QHuU

@KellyMatshall @GaryMcG1888 Isn't it crazy how right now in the Holy Land, far worse is being done to the Palestinians than was ever done to Christ, and it happens day in, day out, and Christians all over the world cheer it on and fund it and enable it.

Good Friday is the day that Jesus, the Son of God, was arrested, beaten and then executed by crucifixion, nailed to and hung on a wooden cross outside Jerusalem. The death of Jesus is central to the Easter story and to Christianity itself. May everyone who is a believer have a blessed Easter and let's not forget the ransom sacrifice jesus made for all of mankind .

@UnoHimYerMan @RobbieButlerMLA @Dog_Deterrent79 The common Unionist, people I work with, am friendly with, am neighbours with - are (invariably) completely different to the politician and Internet mouthpieces. Certainly I'm in no fear of my neighbours, unlike 30 years ago

@Bobbert_The @RobbieButlerMLA @Dog_Deterrent79 ‘Fair-minded’…until a bi-lingual sign appears.

Every discussion around constitutional change and creating a new Ireland has been centred around protecting the British Unionist identity. It has been rooted in respect by all shades of Nationalism. Contrast that with how the Irish identity has been treated in the NI by unionism.

@JP46251093 @HighwaySqueak Sorry, which 'nation' were they booing?

@HighwaySqueak Complete scum bags boo another nation’s anthem - you wouldn’t see this in Welsh rugby

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Makes me so, so proud of Cymru.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 You glorious, glorious people. Next stop: St Asaph tomorrow morning to boo Charles! #AbolishTheMonarchy #YesCymru #Cymru #Wales

@RobbieButlerMLA @Dog_Deterrent79 Nationalism in NI only flourished as a reaction to Unionist supremacy. Unionists today are invariably fair-minded, but will pay the price of their parents' missed opportunity to show any common respect to their Nationalist neighbours.

@Dog_Deterrent79 Nationalism has flourished in Northern Ireland. Unionism and British identity has disappeared in the Republic. That's irrefutable 🤷‍♂️

@warrior_ethos_6 @SoloT_Y @RoshanKrRaii Your family aren't conquerors, they're just a collection of immigrants.

@SoloT_Y @RoshanKrRaii Conquered - We are conquerors just like the Persians were. Actually we are just better than they ever were at it.

BREAKING : THIS IS SAVAGE 🔥 Pete Hegseth 🇺🇸: We will bomb Iran and make it go back to the stone age. IRGC Aerospace Commander 🇮🇷 : Hollywood has poisoned your mind, a country with a 250 year old history wants to erase a 6000 year old civilisation, the only thing you can take is your soldiers to the graveyard 🔥 Bro just ate him and left no crumbs.

@Thelytokous Guinness varies wildly, sometimes in drinkable and sometimes the GOAT pint. Irish friendliness was associated with the Catholic sense of community in past generations but has disappeared as Ireland has become secular and obsessed with money / status / class.

Red sauce has no place on a fry or sassidge sandwich Tayto cheese n onion are rotten Guinness is just okay Corned beef and cabbage is NOT a traditional Irish meal All us Irish people are NOT nice (especially ‘patriots’) Let’s debate.