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@Feargal_Sharkey Two weeks ago a major fish kill on the Roe, a river which I’m sure you know well. For two days we were all over the media. In the midst of an election campaign not one single mp, mla or councillor got in touch. Says it all. Depressing!

"Feargal Sharkey’s mission to save our chalk streams Former Undertones lead singer and keen fly fisherman is taking on the water companies and Environment Agency". 6 years ago. Who knew it would lead to all of this. Huge thank you to all of you. 👏👏👏 theguardian.com/environment/20…

@MatSilk @susie_dent @BBCBreakfast My father-in-law (Buckinghamshire) used to refer to people as ‘me duck’. When he referred to you as ‘ducky’ it had a more negative connotation.

It was a treat to chat on @BBCBreakfast this morning about local dialects and the words that define us, from barm cakes to chuggy pigs. Which words or expressions transport you immediately back home?

@aineltoner @BelTel My Dad would often, when speaking about someone in a derogatory sense, refer to them as “a cod’s arse”, which seems a little unfair to a cod’s anatomy when you consider some of the “headbangers” out there.

Bout ye! Am writing a piece for @BelTel on our love for NI slang and local phrases: so what’s your favourite? Comment with where you’re from or send me a DM - they may appear in our upcoming feature #nislang #niphrases

@gnickodonnell The Pale Blue Eye. Watched it last night. Harry Melling as Edgar A. Poe was very good, I thought.

@sianharries_ Driving to San Antonio Texas last month and a sign outside a hospital suggested that the waiting time in ER was 3 minutes (if you could afford the treatment when you got there). We need to provide adequate resourcing and support our NHS!

‘If Little Johnny needs an overnight hospital stay at £750, a consultation at £250 and a paracetamol IV drip at £270, how much crowdfunding will Little Johnny need to raise when we inevitably switch to the US private healthcare model?’

@gnickodonnell Wow! Pat and Phil looking great. Hope Pat’s still fishing.

@bbcweather @angie_weather Driving up from Austin to Dallas yesterday morning the temperature dropped 20 degrees C. Not the kind of weather we usually get in Derry. Currently sitting at -11C.

An #ArcticBlast is hitting many parts of the US with the most brutal weather in a generation. In Wyoming the temperature dropped 22°C in just 20 minutes. 📉🥶 Weatherbomb 🌀 will bring blizzards, flash freezing and widspread disruption. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-… | Simon

@susie_dent @8Outof10Cats What about the Ulster Scots term “a lock” which translates as much/several. Would be a good fit I think.

It’s an @8Outof10Cats does Countdown recording day. Pondering the collective noun for comedians. A giggle? Punchline? Guffaw? All suggestions welcome.

@KarenSethuraman People should tweet others as they themselves would like to be tweeted.

Just a gentle reminder.. Your attack/abuse toward me is not welcome and it is not okay… and this includes private messages. I will never understand anyone who follows me or decides to come onto my TL to simply attack. Simply unfollow. Scroll on Move on. Blessings Rev K

@SineadBradleySD @BorisJohnson Agree. They should stop waving flags and start waiving visas.

@C_Fitz_ If in the north west - Derry area will help with food, baby needs.

Single mum. Living in inadequate social housing. Impacted by the two child limit. No gas & "-43p in her electric" She's "scared to think" of where she's "getting the pennies for the next meal" - it is really taking its toll on her health. (Screenshot shared w/ her permission)

@bbcniweather Fishing for a pot of gold.

@paulaiken52 @angie_weather @newslineweather @WeatherCee @barrabest @geoff_maskell @belfastcc @love_belfast @BelfastHourNI Butterbur. Flower spike appears before the leaves which are very large. Common along rivers and in damp places.

Down by the River Lagan today....anyone know what the purple flower is by any chance ?@newslineweather @WeatherCee @angie_weather @barrabest @geoff_maskell @belfastcc @love_belfast @BelfastHourNI

@AlexaDWilson It is. It makes me smile so much

@newslineweather Whooper swans racing the storm south.

Banagher Dam like a mill pond under the anticyclone. @newslineweather

John Bercow is Jewish. He has known Jeremy Corbyn for 27 years. He was asked if Jeremy was anti-Semitic. His answer was profound

@renebatt26 @markohalloran @theactualcathal Does this mean if you have 5 of them there gins Paul you’re good to go?

@markohalloran @theactualcathal *Phew! * It was going to be bad enough having to eat Italian all the time, during the #BrexitFamine, without some sloe gin to wash it down. "Sloeginisaplantbasedproductandcanconstitutepartofyour 5-a-day" (Food Standard Bureau)

@Joe835 Afraid a potato ain’t gonna cut it!

I mean she’s awful and she’s been consistently awful throughout her career but that said, Priti Patel is gorgeous and I will now eat a raw potato to atone for tweeting this 🥔

@metoffice Here’s one I counted earlier