Liam Foy

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Was waiting for this video to drop ever since I saw the news item about Boston. Garron doesn’t disappoint.

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

Paying Tribute to the 168 school girls murdered by Donald Trump

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[ruth allum @mgtruth]

I can only assume you didn’t hear the coroners report during Nats trial a couple of weeks ago. @JonBurrowsMLA
Or read the evidence given by Abi Lyle.
The injuries suffered by Katie Simpson before she was strangled.
You could’ve used “barbaric” to describe them too.

[Paul Wilson @PaulWil81875490]

My father was stabbed 33 times & had his throat cut from ear to ear by this loyalist UFF murder. Do I blame the entire loyalist community, of course I don’t! Evil is Evil it doesn’t recognise race,creed or colour!!

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

As an MP representing a constituency of 112,00 people, people with very diverse views and life experiences, I work every day to try and bring people together by leading and showing positive example by going everywhere in Lagan Valley. I certainly don't please everyone all of the time and that's not the aim. But we have an important role in working for all and showing good example. Standing in a crowd with people covering faces with masks or scarves whilst the crowd shout obscenities and abuse is not something we should be anywhere near, never mind in the middle of. We all have a role to play in providing positive leadership and this falls shockingly short of it.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Liam Foy @liambo13]

Righteous compassion!

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Henry's family are suffering yet have the grace and dignity to reject hatred.

They don't want their son's name hijacked, by those who revel in division, or for more people to get hurt.

Righteous compassion might actually make this world a slightly better place.

R.I.P. Henry 🙏

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Perpetrators of murder can be initially treated as victims by police because the perpetrator often controls the initial information given to police.

In Henry Nowak's case, a 999 call made by the murderer's brother alleging a crime occurred.

It takes time to unravel deception.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel.

The ambulance crew arrives to try help.

Israel then hits them with a missile.

All on camera.

Proven.

War crimes.

Yet our leaders still arm them & support them.

Why?

[Roy Curtis @RoyCurtis68]

Ciara Mageean
Every now and then a moment seizes your heart.
An Olympian in her early 30s ambushed by cancer.
Her courage.
Selflessness.
Fears.
And love...
Lord.
A column on a truly extraordinary woman.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InsideLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿© @InsideLucysHead]

Retiring from the British Army can be complicated...

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.

The letter read:

“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,

We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.

Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Army Paymaster”

Col Maclaren replied:

“Dear Paymaster,

Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.

I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.

By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.

I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”

A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,

We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst.

We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.

We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.

However,

We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles:

*The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)

*The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)

*The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)

*The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)

*The Boer War (1899 -1902).

We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:

*9765 Cannon
*26,785 Swords
*12,889 Pikes
*127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
*28,987 horses (fully kitted)

Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.

We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.

WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.

Yours sincerely . . . .”

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

At yesterday's Unite the Kingdom rally one speaker said:

"It's not too late to get Islam out of that building (Parliament)"

"It is not to late to get Islam out of every single official office in this country"

"It is absolutely vital, if we want to save this country, we have to remove Islam from every single place of authority"

If these comments were directed at British Jews, they would rightly dominate headlines nationwide, because antisemitism is wrong.

Anti-Muslim rhetoric should be treated with the same seriousness and scrutiny.

[Liam Foy @liambo13]

Right on so many levels

[Darran Marshall @DarranMarshall]

Ireland will not broadcast the #Eurovision this week - and instead of the final, RTÉ will air a repeat of the Father Ted Eurovision episode A Song for Europe https://t.co/py9cuAzwuF

[Liam Foy @liambo13]

Please read and think before we judge

[Muslim Sisters of Eire @Msoe_Dublin]

Tonight the queue was much longer than usual. It was chaotic. We were a little bit down on hot foods tonight—we only had 320 hot meals. We were worried that we might not be able to feed everybody, but thank God we were able to feed everyone and we had backup as well. We are very blessed to have had that backup.

It was very apparent how many rough sleepers are out. The stories you hear from the hostels are actually unbelievable; they prefer to stay in tents and sleeping bags as soon as the fine weather comes. We had such a beautiful story tonight that we really want to share with you.

Usually, when we’ve been open for about an hour and the queue is really long, we send someone down to do a count. This is to ensure we have enough hot meals, and if we don't, we usually run over to McDonald’s to get burgers just to make sure no one goes without. As we were counting, one of the lads shouted to the team leader how many people were still in the queue.

There was a young gentleman there who was quiet and clearly a rough sleeper. When he finally got to the top of the queue, he had been waiting patiently for about an hour. Before that, one of the team members had gone down and asked if he would like to come to the front—when we see someone is visibly sleeping rough, we try to bring them up. He said, "No, thank you. I’ll wait my turn."

An absolute gentleman who ended up on the streets, reasons unknown. When it was finally his turn, we went to give him his hot meal and he refused it. He said to me, “I heard there are 89 people still behind me. Give them my meal.”

We were absolutely floored and gobsmacked by such kindness from someone sleeping on the streets. Our manager went up and asked him to please take a meal so he wouldn't leave himself without one, but he still refused, saying there were too many people behind him. We packed his bags with fruit, pastries, yoghurts, bananas, apples, and oranges because of the compassion he showed for the rest of the rough sleepers, whom he calls "family."

Seeing something like that leaves you with tears in your eyes. The kindness of humans is just unbelievable. We had tables filled with food, fruit, crisps, chocolate, and breakfast bars, and everything was handed out. We are blessed that everyone had a hot meal tonight—except our friend, who generously gave his away.

If you would like to help us or donate, please visit https://t.co/txexZXW91y.

[LeagueofIreland+ @AaJ1532082]

Derry City were struggling to survive playing in front of 3 blurts & a blade until the 'Liverpool of Ireland' Shamrock Rovers agreed to play them at the Brandywell in 1984. Thousands flocked to see the famous Hoops & the rest is Derry City history

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and Israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

Sadness piled upon horror…