#neagh

[northirish]

Question for Norn Iron folks - Has your tap water tasted... mildewy, lately?

[dougielombax]

Today is world environment day.

Apparently.

My own country is beyond ecologically bankrupt unfortunately.

See this article here to prove my point.

Generations of parochial brainrot and Victorian obsession with neatness and tidiness combined with agricultural lobbying and borderline worship of pesticides.

(Destroying wetlands for turf because it’s “tradition”, turning the land into a lifeless chemically poisoned pasture.)

Combined with small minded idiocy borne of colonial brain damage.

It’s bred a sickening mentality in FAR too many people in Ireland.

Almost nobody gives a SHIT about the environment and it’s sickening to behold!

Even the so-called Green Party would rather implement useless, counterproductive measures for their own sake.

The Irish Green Party could learn a thing or too from their Scottish counterparts. But they won’t! They’re more concerned with greenwashing bullshit!

To say nothing of rampant greenwashing. The farming lobby and Green Party types would rather see the blame get shifted towards poor people and their families!

Sinn Fein are at least willing to recognise this but I think they need to be a bit more clear on such policies. I think they have a prime opportunity to adopt a kind of ecological socialist outlook. They sure as shit ought to.

With a proper understanding of ecology, none of this PETA or Greenpeace fanatical bullshit.

And so many people in my country are beyond UNEDUCATED on environmental and ecological matters to the point of being wilfully cruel!

To both nature and animals!

Almost as if out of spite.

To say nothing of the DUP’s deliberate, spiteful ignorance, denialism and INEPTITUDE concerning such matters. (But that’s because they’re stupid Christian fundamentalist cultists who want their stupid rapturepocalypse bullshit to happen, a glorified human sacrifice if nothing else!)

The ongoing Lough Neagh shitshow makes that much QUITE clear!

And anyone who voices their concern about such matters is belittled as a “treehugger” or whatever.

Keep that shit in the 1960s please!

And the agricultural lobbyists are making BILLIONS off of it!

It’s exhausting and I am BEYOND sick of it!

This BULLSHIT is gonna take FUCKING generations to undo! (This fact does NOT justify inaction!)

And these feral cud-chewing IDIOTS are gonna give us hell for it! Bleating and bitching every fucking step of the way!

And idiots like the Healey-Raes will bitch up a storm about it and their MORON voters will eat that SHIT up!

Because they’re FUCKING morons! Terminally stupid!

Sometimes I feel like the only person in Ireland who gives a shit about this and it makes me feel like I’m going insane!

Feel free to reblog.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 15 October:

1582 – Pope Gregory reforms the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45BCE: 4 October is followed by 15 October. However, the reform will not be implemented in Britain and Ireland till 1752. 1690 – After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster. 1763 – Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, at Carton House, Co…

[bfoxgamescreens]

Bit of an ecological disaster happening with NI's biggest source of drinking water at the moment.

[the-october-country]

AMAZING. So, if you'll indulge me in a little local politics for a moment, the context to this is that Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the UK - and the source of a large proportion of Northern Ireland's drinking water - is horribly polluted with blue-green algae, agricultural run-off, you name it, it's in the drink. This, and I'll not mince words, because vampires need a good verbal staking, is because some parasite of an Earl who's barely even been to Northern Ireland owns the bed of the Lough, and has profited (e.g. via dredging operations) from letting it get into this state.

It's worth noting that, as well as currently being hopping mad about the state of Lough Neagh, the Northern Ireland public have always been very good at celebrating Hallowe'en, so adding a peripatetic cursed doll to our unique cultural traditions at this time of year is very apt move...

[we-have-strange-dreams]

[I.D: A colourless drawing of a mermaid and an otter. Both are lying on their stomachs and turned towards each other. The mermaid is pictured from the front, turned just slightly while the otter is turned to face her directly. The mermaid is resting on her elbows. Her tail rises up from behind her. She is smiling. End I.D]

I read a book about myths from Lough Neagh and it's Mermay so

[leopardsealz]

so glad starlings are native here so i can love seeing them with no guilt at all! theyre such pretty little birds & i love listening to their chatter...

someday i hope to watch a murmuration :] i have seen one before but it was from the road & we couldnt find a space to pull over rip. so hoping for a time where i can watch one with no interruptions

[bluewithpurplepolkadots]

Was recommended this video today which was just posted the day before! A pretty good basic run down of the current environmental crisis in Lough Neagh.

[2badgersinatrenchcoat]

I will refer to all bodies of water as a lough.

freshwater and big? Lough.

saltwater and small? Lough.

just a really wide river? Lough.

The ocean is just one really big lough and we are just islands in it.

wtf is a lake? I don’t care if it’s a bay, it’s just a tidal lough. glacier? That’s right it’s a frozen lough.

[autotrails]

Irish Auto Trail-Moira to Crumlin (County Down and County Antrim, Northern Ireland)

[maypoleman1]

7th June

St Meriasek’s Day / St Colman’s Day

Miners Enjoying “Croust Time”, East Pool Mine, 1893. Source: Mac Waters/ cornwallforever.co.uk

Today is the feast day of both St Meriasek and St Colman. Meriasek is the patron saint of tin miners and therefore historically a very significant figure in Cornwall. As late as the 1890s, clay images of the saint were put up at the mine’s entrance by the men for good luck. At the beginning of each shift the miners would intone Meriasek we pray thee to invoke his protection. Also, if the miners came across a snail during their work, they would drop some lantern wax on the creature “for luck”. What the snails thought of these encounters is not clear.

St Colman had a well dedicated to him at Cranfield Church, on the shore of Lough Neagh near Castletown in County Antrim. The well offered the usual curative remedies in return for coins. The well was cleaned in the 1970s and a fine collection of deposited coins was discovered. Allegedly, despite it being bad luck to steal the well’s offerings, one of the workmen helped himself to some. He was killed by a car on his way home.

[northirish]

It's Irish land you fucking useless waste of spunk, go fuck off back to England.

[dougielombax]

Please reblog the shit out of these articles.

I’d say you can thank the mutton-brained inbreds in the DUP for this. Allowing farmers to spew shite into rivers and lakes.

Reblog the shit out of this.

[stairnaheireann]

Clough Mór and Fionn mac Cumhaill

Fionn mac Cumhaill threw most of the big stones that are littered across the north of Ireland. He was also responsible for creating the Giants Causeway, the Isle of Man and Lough Neagh and gives his name to the Cooley mountains across the Lough. Fionn mac Cumhaill pursued a wild boar across Slieve Foy mountain in Carlingford and slew it. He cooked it on top of the smouldering Volcano that had…

[rosebellcross]

Took a picture of Lough Neagh, it is a bit off for me but I still think it's a good one. Ireland is very beautiful, I'm hoping to go to Scotland in the summer holidays! 🎉

[justdannyquinn]

January 27th, 2023

The Battery is definitely one hell of a spot.