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Brendan Harkin
@brendanjharkin
Belfast based photographer.
Parody of the real Brendan Harkin.
The Illuminati pays me to tweet.
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"Exams are getting easier" confidently declares yer Da, who can't attach a document to an email
Unlike Jo Swinson or Jeremy Corbyn, I won't leave you second guessing.
The moment I am elected I shall immediately detonate Trident and free us from the ceaseless torment.
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Northern Ireland potato crops being hit by changing weather bbc.in/45Al9H0
May this lad never have to pay for a pint again. twitter.com/AtaDivision/st
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Hearing reports that Juan Guaidó has declared himself the UK Prime Minister
My deepest sympathy to anti-choicers and homophobes today who will have to face the future living every day in the exact same way as always because this law change does absolutely nothing to lessen your quality of life and never would have in the first place you absolute gowls.
Obsessed with the image of Shane McGowan just typing "Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite" into his iPad, squinting over a pair of reading glasses as he sends Laurence Fox to hell
There's something almost impressive about Hermes rebranding to Evri to escape their bad reputation and pretty much instantly gaining the same reputation for their new brand as well.
Ritchie McKinnie, father of five, was driving along Matchett Street when Soldier J of the Parachute Regiment opened fire on him. A bullet slammed into the steering column and he was killed by the resulting fragments.
Soldier J called it "an enjoyable experience".
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I’m sorry to have been relieved of my responsibilities in Government tonight.
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I'll allow this purely cause I prefer this for filenaming conventions
Slept in lads.
First thing I saw was Bryson suggesting the GFA makes Catholics have more babies.
It's going to be an incredible day.
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Since this is picking up momentum
forget soundcloud and remember to join a union
Anyone who claims the cost of an Irish Language Act will be "a waste when we should fund our health service" whilst actively voting for a political party that backs a £14bn bridge to Scotland does not deserve to be taken seriously.
Because NI citizens are entitled to an Irish identity under the Good Friday Agreement which, long-story-short, is one of the long term results of colonising an island beside you so suck it the fuck up.
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How is it fair that NI citizens keep EU citizenship but my constituents in Croydon North don't? Shd apply to whole UK
John "Jackie" Duddy.
First fatality of the Bloody Sunday massacre of January 30th 1972.
Shot as he ran away from soldiers, the bullet hit him in the shoulder and entered his chest.
17 years old.
Unarmed.
#OnThisDay
The exact spot where George Michael crashed his car.
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People and families going about their day:
Nazis: CIVILISATION IS COLLAPSING
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#Dublin is looking lovely this time of year, a real Irish city I’m told 
#IrelandisFull
#IrelandisFull
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Reminder:
Jeremy Clarkson's parents were successful business owners that put him through private schools and his first job was one they gifted to him. His first writing job was gifted to him by a family friend.
Ignore his annual exam grades "rags to riches" myth.
Sammy Wilson standing with people promoting a website that states Covid is a hoax and part of a planned world takeover.
As of yesterday 2,142 are dead in NI as a result of Covid 19.
the absolute state of your party.
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"I'm just glad they resolved the uncertainty about VAT on imports."
Also shout out to the lad who checked my ID and ensured to read out all my middle names so there was no doubt that the King Of The Taigs had entered the building
There is no clearer example of "main character" complex than Covid truthers who think the world is full of vast conspiracies that only they are smart enough to figure out. Instead of it just being a shitshow where viruses can exist.
Get the jab and don't kill someone's granny.
"See? Tadpoles. 37,930 of them."
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This pic will be used as a joke meme for years to come but I have to ask @moneillsf what are you actually showing @DUPleader?
John Pat Cunningham was the same age as me. A 27yr old man with learning difficulties whose crime was running in fear, whose punishment was bullets in the back.
There was no trial.
No consideration for "decency" or his well being when those rifle shots took him from this world. twitter.com/SoldierAtoZFun
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Not sure Protestants resisting Mass exactly qualifies as news
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#Brexit: Loyalist Bryson warns of 'mass resistance' from unionist community
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It's important not to spin Arlene Foster's comments about there never having been a hard border in Ireland as some sort of foolish ignorance.
It's an outright lie which she told to the press for public broadcast.
Arlene was removed for not being hardline enough and her replacement has just been removed for the same reason.
Jeffrey Donaldson is presumably off somewhere listening to audio recordings of Rev Ian Paisley and hitting a punch bag.
The Sunflower shutting over Christmas to protect staff and public reinforces that it isn't just pints that make a great pub.
That's community leadership and prioritising humanity over profit.
I hope the NI Exec find a way to provide support for them and others to do the same.
Fuck the DUP
Lyra and I would meet for a coffee in our usual spot from time to time to catch up, swap gossip and put the world to rights.
Everything seems wrong today, the sense of loss is indescribable.
The unity that everyone has shown today is fitting tribute to everything she stood for.
The Hard Men in East Belfast are afraid of because even the simple act of people from different backgrounds coming together to play sport shatters the bigoted mythology those Hard Men rely on to keep people living in fear and hatred.
Faced my first tyrannical covid passport check tonight at the Marcus Ward.
They oppressively held out a phone for my QR code and when it flashed green they, in a manner alike to Pol Pot, asked me to scan a QR code for a tracing form. Took 30 seconds. I am basically like Mandela.
Roses are Red
Violets have uses
Ian Paisley Jr accepted luxury family holidays from the Sri Lankan government and spoke against investigation into their human rights abuses
Can we retire the term "socialite' now she's been convicted as a sex trafficker, it was a meaningless stand-in for "rich person" anyway.
I am going to spend today laughing at the fact Paul Golding came over here to support Jayda Fransen and the PSNI were just sat there waiting for him to arrive to lift him.
M A G N I F I C E N T
Unreasonably entertaining that the old Sinn Fein office on the Antrim Road is now called this
Since I didn't actually get round to this at the time:
Paramilitary control in NI is so normalised that they can freely advertise the areas they control with flags and murals and the PSNI and statutory bodies can do nothing about it.
Would ye be well
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The DUP has complained that St Patrick’s Day in Belfast is “turning into St Patrick’s Week” and will turn the unionist community away from the city centre during celebrations. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-
The British Army shot so many civilians in the back they had to legalise murder in NI just to save them.
Yet another decision forced on NI without our consent.
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“What we are doing today is utterly shameful. It is a whitewash on a grand scale. It is an opportunity for impunity and it would not be allowed to stand in any other part of the United Kingdom."
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Not a day goes by that I don't think about the fact one of my colleagues convinced his German flatmate that the tap water in Belfast cannot be consumed on a Tuesday or a Thursday.
Shout out to people implying "history" won't be kind to Brexiteers when there are statues of Cromwell and Churchill about the place.
I’m off to bed now but I just want to tell you all
from the bottom of my heart
honestly and sincerely
and without expectation nor trepidation
with all due respect
Fuck the DUP.
The DUP Conference tomorrow has a hashtag.
#DUP18
Sure would be a shame if yis hijacked it with posts about the various scandals and examples of misgovernment they've been implicated in.
Just watched a guy walking past cheerily finish a phone call with “yep! That’s grand! Great speaking! Byebyebyebye” immediately scream EUUUGGGHHHH at his phone.
I have never identified so strongly with another person like this.
Today in NI Politics:
The people who've been telling you that women should go to prison for terminating pregnancies have decided shooting an unarmed person in the back with a rifle should not carry with it a custodial sentence.
Just witnessed someone slabbering about Transport House so allow me an indulgent photo thread to remind you all it's a feckin' beautiful and has a remarkably well preserved interior for the average building left sitting empty in Belfast.
We gave the English their one last chance to be sound.
Now we must invade.
Life is too short to pretend we actually like tomatoes in sandwiches.
Yis were wrong on civil rights.
Yis were wrong on civil partnerships.
Yis were wrong on same sex marriage.
Yis were wrong on abortion rights.
Yis are wrong on trans rights.
Fuck the DUP.
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Nicola Sturgeon’s demise and sudden resignation should be a warning to all those politicians that pander to the woke agenda. The public are not fools, they see right through agendas and believe in biological facts that being a man is a man and a woman, a woman.
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Belfast says "get back on your ferries, transphobes" Day.
Starting with in Writer's Square
First person to deck Tommy Robinson in Dublin should be granted the freedom of the city
The DUP having council candidates shoulder-checking journalists like hard lawds in Belfast City Hall seems to fit with their general decline/return to their roots.
Pandering to violent sectarian thugs because they have feck all else to offer NI.
George Floyd vigil in Belfast to express solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
She'd send this and ye wouldn't know if you were about to get a question about what a meme means or info about something serious she was investigating. I miss yapping at her for always being late for coffee and I miss her telling me off for being too mean on Twitter. 4 years.
Marking the resignation of Dale Pankhurst from Belfast City Council by appreciating his finest moment:
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Hes not replying to anything but as always, for @Dale_Pankhurst this speaks for itself.
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Shinner: "Slavery was bad"
Some Alliance member: "Yeah"
Ruth Dudley Edwards descending from the ceiling dressed like a vampire: "WELL WELL WELL I SEE ALLIANCE IRA ARE AT IT AGAIN"
Remember when this party was telling us that reconciliation would be damaged by someone not going to one church service
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Honoured to support Dennis Hutchings today. A man of 80 years old, with severe heart and kidney problems, being dragged before the courts to appease Republicans. The same Republicans who are safe in the knowledge they will never be before the courts for heinous crimes.
Anti-choicers standing outside the Courts in Belfast today, showing their support for the prosecution of a mother looking out for her teenage daughter.
A visible reminder of the utterly insensible cruelty of our archaic laws and the spitefulness of the people who support them.
There are people right now who stoked this and hoped for it to happen, who are sitting in quiet satisfaction as they watch it unfold without even a flicker of self awareness that they are the cancer that rots at the heart of the country they claim to fight for.
If ever a single image was to summarise a party.
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MP waves bank card at DUP's Dodds after he highlights how DUP votes crucial in confidence motion
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"I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I continue to shake hands."
- Boris Johnson 03/03/2020
God I hope this turns out to be another Catholic vs Protestant thing for the sweet sweet Content™
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Caught up on the Derry Girls finale.
That 5 minute ending speech by Jim Allister was a shocking twist.
Your annual reminder the old town hall of Belfast is currently still sitting unused.
John Pat Cunningham was a vulnerable adult with learning disabilities who fled through a field when he saw Army Landrovers.
Dennis Hutchings was one of the two soldiers who got out to "pursue" him.
Five shots later, John was dead.
If I had $44bn going spare I'd buy the entirety of Northern Ireland and turn it into a white water rafting facility
John Pat Cunningham wasn't able to consider how his final years would be spent. Instead one day in 1974 the man with the mental age of a child, ran in terror from Dennis and another soldier.
Five shots later, his chance to reach 78 years old like Dennis was taken from him.
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Prospect of Troubles murder bid trial making final years hell, says ex-soldier Dennis Hutchings
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How about: "We are desisting, we are decommissioning and we are disbanding."
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New IRA: 'There is nothing we can say that will offer any comfort to Lyra's family' irishnews.com/news/northerni
Belfast City Hall has festive greetings in Irish, English and Ulster Scots on it up in lights and the sky has not yet fallen in.
Larne in a United Ireland twitter.com/j7sancho/statu
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Gonna be offline for a while as this has been an absolute crushing shock. My thoughts will be fixed on Nat's family and her other friends.
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Police investigating last night's suspected murder in the Silverwood Green area of Lurgan have named the victim as 32-year-old Natalie McNally.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man in his 30's remains in custody. @BelTel
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The transphobes are so angry about Rape Crisis NI being trans inclusive that they are now libeling their helpline volunteers as predators and perverts.
Stupidly dangerous antics.
Things you can't contact the South Belfast MP for help with:
-People illegally putting up UVF flags around your area
Things you can contact the South Belfast MP for help with:
-Translink giving a bus stop a taigy name
What's everyone's January Lockdown pursuit going to be?
I'm thinking of either giving Duolingo another crack or becoming one of those 3D printing nerds
Me climbing into my bed for a cosy comfy sleep vs me remembering I am going to wake up to a BBC Breaking notification in the morning about what the Yanks have done
I have just been informed that sweet popcorn is not a normal thing to be served in the Cinema in the Republic.
Yet another contentious issue to be resolved in any negotiations around Irish Unity.
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This will probably be another delete and repost later because I don't trust my phone for editing but this is probably gonna be my shot of the day
