Finishing 9th last season was great and all, but this nerve-shredding, anxiety-inducing emotional drain is the Leeds United I fell in love with 😂
#lufc
✅ First day done at the
@BelTel
...
📰 Delighted to be on board and looking forward to the challenge.
📩 Any stories give me a shout - DM or the email is in the bio.
#news
#work
🚨 Some news:
📰 Today was my last day with
@derrypost
/
@DerryNow
before moving onto a new role.
🤝 Thanks to all who have trusted me with their stories with me over the last few years.
👀 Looking forward to starting a new challenge tomorrow...
#news
#work
#derrypost
🍼 FA Cup, schmFA cup. Better things to be at yesterday anyway!
👶 Welcome Meidhbhín Áine - you've landed that extra stint at U14 by the skin of your teeth 😂
#newarrival
💬 "I think it's really important for representation across the board."
🟡
@allianceparty
's John Hyland on the importance of having an openly gay councillor in Ballymena.
📰
@BelTel
:
#LE23
#LE2023
Asked Google to hit me with the Arctic Monkeys this morning and now we're on a glorious oddysey through mid-2000s Indie bands.
Can almost feel the Renshaws floor sticking to my feet.
#nostalgia
💬 "Those young boys should be rearing their own families."
🙏 The murder of the three Quinn brothers in July 1998 appalled the world.
➡️ A horrific loss of innocent life.
📰
@BelTel
#ballymoney
#ballymoney
#quinn
#troubles
🟠 | "For you, the parents who put a set of GAA posts in your back garden, this win belongs to you."
🗣️ | The words of GAA President Jarlath Burns before handing the Sam Maguire Cup over to his native county.
📰 |
@BelTel
#gaa
#AllIrelandFootballFinal
🔴 | A controversial anti-internment bonfire in Derry will not go ahead this year, organisers have said.
⬇️ A local councillor has praised the decision from those involved.
📰
@BelTel
#derry
#bogside
#bonfire
⬇️ Had been thinking about Sean Brown a lot over the winter - at the age now where I find myself locking up the club gates much more often.
It's late, sometimes dark, everyone else is gone; you feel vulnerable.
His murder was a despicable, cowardly act of pure hatred.
1/2
💬 "An hour later I woke up on the road with the sleet hitting me and the clothes cut off."
🛣️ Stephen Kee will lose 45 acres of land in the A5 upgrade, yet he is a firm supporter of the project.
⬇️ He was injured in a 2015 crash that claimed his friend's life.
1/3
#A5
💬 "People have clearly voted for politics that works."
🟡 Alliance's Lauren Gray and Maeve Donnelly after topping their respective polls in Carrick Castle and Larne Lough.
📰
@BelTel
:
#LE23
#LE2023
💬 We can't keep self-harming as unionists, salami-slicing and having all sorts of brands.
🔴 DUP's Ian Paisley on unionist co-operation after holding two seats in Ballymena.
📰
@BelTel
:
#LE23
#LE2023
This is devastating news. Speaking to him only a month ago and he was a proud man at seeing the opening of the school's new pitch and was so enthused about its impact on the community about which he cared deeply. RIP.
🗳️ EXCLUSION - BANNSIDE
🟣 Sinn Féin transfers from Ian Friary are enough to knock TUV's Anna Henry out of the contest in Bannside.
📰
@BelTel
:
#LE23
#LE2023
⬇️ Most who lived through this time will remember how they first heard about the deaths of the Quinn brothers in Ballymoney 25 years ago.
📰
@BelTel
1/5
#quinn
#ballymoney
#twelfth
🏛️ | Well that was quite the day...
✅ Court report
✅ Live reporting
✅ Pieces to camera (Gaeilge & Béarla)
✅ Podcasts (Gaeilge & Béarla)
📰
@BelTel
for all the latest on Jeffrey and Eleanor Donaldson's court appearance
#news
#newry
#reporting
#beltel
Devastating news last night from Dungannon. Played against Damian in the Antrim league - an outstanding hurler who would have graced any pitch in Ireland. Thoughts with his family, friends and heartbroken clubmates. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. RIP.
🗣️ | I salute the articulacy of Jarlath Burns moments after his county has just won its first title in 22 years - with his son left clutching the ball at the final whistle 😂
📰 |
@BelTel
comment from earlier this year.
#gaa
#AllIrelandFootballFinal
@DoctorT1992
@apopey
You can see it now. Wilks plays all year. Fires us to a play-off final. Jailed before the final.
That or the EFL bring in a new rule that playing while awaiting a court hearing carries a 12-point deduction.
#lufc
🗳️ | Potentially seismic upset could be brewing in North Antrim as it is understood Jim Allister is polling neck-in-neck with sitting MP Ian Paisley.
📝 | Mr Paisley has been in post since 2010, with his father Ian holding the seat for decades before him.
📰 |
@BelTel
#GE2024
🗳️ Sinn Féin body language would indicate they are happy with their Ballymena vote.
⬇️ Party looking to elect their first cllr in the area after Marian Maguire and Patrice Hardy both came close in 2014 & 2019.
📰
@BelTel
:
#LE23
#LE2023
Okay, let's review...
Spying but lying about it - no bother.
Spying but admitting guilt - worthy of investigation.
So all you have to do is tell lies and they'd never investigate you?
That must be how all those clubs disregarding FFP do it 🤔
#lufc
Unbelievable stuff 👏 though the lads keep him grounded - was standing with
@malmcmullan
alongside Niall Holly after they beat Lavey this year. Ruairí walks out, Holly turns and goes "Mooney them boys said you're shite at painting." 😂😂
💬 "An absolute Titan of hurling and the guardian of hurling in the city."
Palpable sense of sadness around Derry today following the passing of
@NaMaghaCLG
legend Seán Mellon.
#hurling
#derry
CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS: Proposal to consult with the family of LGBTQ rights campaigner Mark Ashton and campaign groups over a memorial in Portrush passes.
A proposed amendment from Cllr William McCandless not to do so was defeated by 19 votes to 15.
#localpolitics
👀 Look closely... climbing into the attic for the weans' presents and forgot about the Thomas the Tank trike/box with wheels we got for Meidhbhín. It was sitting right beside the door. Near fell down the ladder when the light caught its face 😂
#christmas
@GrantSana
Photos are such a huge thing. Every parent keeps pictures of their children close. Our midwife was outstanding when we had Fionnuala and we got huge support from all around us. Some of the stuff I've read today around this has been vile.
Admitting to slightly losing the run of myself in this work of fiction...
But if you were to pick one
@LUFC
player to score a single goal to seal promotion, who do you think would be most deserving?
#LUFC
⬇️ Darren Keenan (48) has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). He is terminally ill and will be officially homeless on Feb 3 after being hit with an eviction notice before Christmas. 1/7
#health
#housing
@tommy_lufc
@deadbloke
Our support do it anyway. I bring my own scarf. There's also been no communication/instructions asking us to do anything. It's a nice gesture from the club. "Here's a scarf, wave it, throw it round ye, do what you want with it. No pressure."
#lufc
This is just compounding a litany of nonsense. Player welfare out the window. Bus booked at considerable expense. Players leaving work early. Call not made until late in the evening with players already on the bus 🤷♂️
This match is not taking place .
We were told of the change to a 3G surface AFTER the bus had left.
Players all with stud boots for grass pitch.
Outrageous that the
@UlsterLadies
secretary told me the players “would be ok to play with studs”.
Ref said no metal studs= no match
📰 Great night's craic at the
@CIPR_NI
Media Awards last night. Delighted to have been shortlisted for Best Piece of Journalism.
👏 Well done to
@Niall_journo
on your award and congrats to all at the
@BelTel
- the shortlisted and the winners!
#NIMA24
This is heartbreaking. Paddy always made you feel at ease on the sideline in Bellaghy and was genuinely interested in what you were doing and how he could help. He'll be greatly missed.
A Mhuire na nGael guigh ar a shon.
With great sadness, we regrettably announce the postponement of tomorrow’s senior & reserve league games due to the untimely passing of out esteemed member Paddy Mackle. Paddy has been a part of our recreational reserves management team for a number of years and was a constant..
"Harrison's deft touch finally broke Westwood’s resolve and lifted the weight off the shoulders of every man, woman and child with blue and yellow coursing through their veins."
Reaction to a tense but ultimately elating day at Elland Road.
#lufc
Happy Birthday Roy Keane.
While I'm sure your timelines will be full of City at the back post or Juve away in 99, Here's one of my favourite moments regarding Keano, Eamon Dunphy and a Journalist called Rod Liddle
🗳️ Before and after...
Been a gruelling but very enjoyable two days at Magherafelt count centre.
Thanks to everyone following along on the
@derrypost
&
@DerryNow
blog - updates from Foyle still available there.
#AE22
#AE2022
Right,
@GACSlaughtneil
disco - talk to me 😬
Looking into putting a piece together for the
@derrypost
, if you'd like to share your memories of a famous institution get in touch!
Any couples meet there and are still together?
DM or email liam
@derrypost
.com
#journorequest
I taught for ten years. Seven of them were as a long-term substitute teacher. A number of those years I didn't receive money for days worked in August until mid-October. Those years there was no monthly wage from July-October. 1/9
Wife (36 weeks pregnant) in getting a bike repaired for our wee girl.
Repair man: "Have you far to go?"
Wife: "Ah no, just out the road to Dunloy."
Man: "Naw...I mean with the wean."
😂😂😂
Meslier. This man is 20, thrust into a Championship title battle and is as steady a keeper as Leeds have had in recent years.
Catching corners, beating the ball out, collecting loose balls and throwing experienced players out of the way to get the ball out.
#lufc
☕ | Home at 9am, straight to eldest's drama show for 11, hour and a half's sleep, up, hurling training, dinner and finally a cup of tea and a catch up of the wider results both here and in GB. I'll sleep the night.
#GE2024
🗳️ | "Daddy where are you going with all that stuff?"
"I've to go and watch people count votes."
"That doesn't sound very exciting to me."
I'll give her a few years.
#GE2024
💬 "A truly special and unique character that touched many lives."
⬇️ "Wee John" McKillop was synonymous with
@RuairiOgCLG
and his loss will be keenly felt throughout the local GAA community. RIP.
📰
@BelTel
#cushendall
#weejohn
#hurling