Man United and Big Country 1983

NEWS! NewsThump formally endorses Count Binface for a better Clacton newsthump.com/2026/07/08/n...

#OlderScotlandIndex26: Just 1 in 4 older Scots believe the State Pension is enough to cover basic living expenses. Too many older people are scraping by. We need a pensioner poverty strategy to ensure we can live well in older age with an adequate income. www.independentage.org/policy-and-r...

The Irish government is seeking to effect outrageous changes to judicial reviews so that, even if a member of the public or eNGO *wins their case*, they'll still have to pay 10s of 1,000s to correct the mistake by the state. But environmentalists are fighting back. www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Manchester United’s greatest players: No 19, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Includes Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke and Teddy Sheringham. And a video message. For @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

The Genius of France between Liberty and Death, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1794, 📸 by Charlotte Wilson Original post

Today is 2026-07-07, the sun sets at 20:52:21 GMT (21:52:21 Irish Standard Time!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 46 mins and 38 secs. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingInNow

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

Salah’s jaws must be aching all the ‘laughing’ he has done in this first half 🙄

Derry City seeking to buy home ground from council [ From BBC News NI ]

NEWS! Lamppost flags at half-mast following Nigel Farage’s resignation newsthump.com/2026/07/07/l...

Let him run unopposed and get him back in to the HC and start questioning him again 🤷🏼‍♂️

Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me

Farage at 2pm - ‘please stop asking me awkward questions or I will skweam and skweam and skweam’ #Iykyk

Sinn Féin has said the objective of its legislation on Irish reunification is to allow the Government to prepare for a united Ireland

So the phlegms saved football while I slept I see 🥴

is Glitch McConnell pining for the fjords? is he only mostly dead? all we know for sure is that there's a cover-up going on, and it stinks to high heaven. thank you for your attention to today's post in which I explore the possibilities. link is here: bit.ly/4p60IvD

B.J.M.C. - Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, by Georg Baselitz, 1965, 📸 by @MaddieMMeyer Original post

I take no pleasure in reporting we must be optimists badfaithtimes.com/r/bbb79b93?m...

When @belfasttelegraph.co.uk asked the DUP questions relating to claims about what Emma Little Pengelly allegedly told a woman who Ian Paisley described as a "victim" of Donaldson, the reply came from solicitor Paul Tweed's law firm, which specialises in libel cases.

Poor Gabriel, won the PL and played in a CL cup final. Now his summer holiday is just gonna be angst about the World Cup 😎

No, you fuck off

Neymar looks like an unshaven 60 year old me trying to play a charidee match.

Whelan on RTE again letting his Scouse bias show about Casemiro

That Raya for Brazil looks like he’s about 40 and has 8 kids ffs

Whelan on RTE getting his usual Casemiro dig in early doors, the Scouse twat.

Where’s Collina in all this? Bingoed in the top seats with the real Ronaldo I reckon 🍟🍟🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍻

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1400-05, 📸 by Buda Mendes Original post

Up the MexiRa 🇲🇽😎

The perfect end to this World Cup: Balogun scores the winner, Trump presents him with the trophy then announces the end of birthright citizenship via executive order and deports him

Were you one of the 80,000+ fans who paid £15 for a ticket to see Queen at Slane 40 years ago today? Any stories to tell?

Top LP this music.apple.com/gb/album/mid...

MAGA is the stupidest example of Darwinism ever.

#OtD 5 Jul 1911 colliers joined the Salford strike, with 40,000 on strike. This is a short history of the dispute: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

A Salford cocktail from @theguardian.com Feast mag yesterday. It’s a shame that there is hardly a pub left in Salford - and I mean the real Salford, none of this Little Hulton etc., guff - to serve one. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...

Brand spanking new podcast from me and @soultwinjeff.bsky.social playing loads of fantastic plastic in a flat in Weaste! Mouthwatering stuff. www.mixcloud.com/Soultwinjeff...

A new opinion poll suggests Fine Gael is the most popular party in the country - but underlines the tightness of the current political race by placing it just one point above Sinn Féin and three points above Fianna Fáil

This from my wife to keep me on my toes 😬

“See you in the pub at 1am on Monday morning?” “But the football has moved!” “What football?”

Today’s Irish News article on Edward Carson’s dangerous and divisive 1920 Twelfth of July speech that sparked waves of sectarian violence that engulfed Belfast for two years. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...

That’s the cinemas fooked for a start. And the restaurants, and the coffee shops and never mind work….aw just forget it 🙄 ‘Sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time linked to higher risk of cancer death.’ www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.

My favourite World Cup meme so far...

Apropos of absolutely nothing - I love them Spain Sox

I’ll always be grateful to Ralf for saying it as it is when he was at OT for that short time. I know he rubbed the United great and good up the wrong way, but it was good to hear it at the time, if only to confirm what many United fans thought.

Not one man who used Jeffrey Epstein to help them rape underage girls has been arrested. But a man has been arrested for placing his hand the Reflecting Pool's water. #NationalPriorities

Two young boys donate £30 found during Foyle Maritime Festival to Hive Cancer Support www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

Donegal legends Patsy Cavanagh and Daniel O’Donnell perform Home to Donegal at Opry le Daniel in Derry. Maith sibh lads. 'This is my homeland, the place I was born in, No matter where I go it's in my soul...' www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...